FINALLY AVAILABLE IN THE UNITED STATES, A SINGULAR STORY COLLECTION THAT TIME OUT DECLARED “UNSETTLINGLY BRILLIANT”
“[An] eerie collection of anecdotes, whose very simplicity elevates them to the status of myth. Their brevity gives off a spiritual glow.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Occasionally withering and frequently hilarious, these anecdotes highlight little knots of human curiosity.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Darkly funny…a sly collection.”
—KIRKUS
A student’s suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd—and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a different animal all along. A man finds his own yellowed birth announcement inside a bureau bought at auction. Set in a small upstate New York town, told in a conversational style,
Pieces for the Left Hand is a stream of a hundred anecdotes, none much longer than a page. At once funny, bizarre, familiar, and disturbing, these deceptively straightforward tales nevertheless shock and amaze through uncanny coincidence, tragic misunderstanding, strange occurrence, or sudden insight.
“A phantasmagoria of American paranoia and self-loathing.”
—JONATHAN LETHEM, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR
“Beautiful and amazing, Pieces for the Left Hand is a book that will leave the reader wishing for more.”
