False Bingo by Jac Jemc, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

"""Combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer's """"Annihilation,"""" the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood"""" -The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Fall Read by The Boston Globe and the Chicago TribuneThe mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of ItIn Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces-some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not-work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. In """"Strange Loop,"""" an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days taxiderming animals, while in """"Delivery,"""" a family watches as their dementia-addled, basement-dwelling father succumbs to an online shopping addiction. """"Don't Let's"""" finds a woman, recently freed from an abusive relationship, living in an isolated vacation home in the South that might be haunted by breath-stealing ghosts. Fueled by paranoia and visceral suspense, and crafted with masterful restraint, these seventeen stories explore what happens when our fears cross over into the real, if only for a fleeting moment. Identities are stolen, alternate universes are revealed, and innocence is lost as the consequences of minor, seemingly harmless decisions erupt to sabotage a false sense of stability. """"This is not a morality tale about the goodness of one character triumphing over the bad of another,"""" the sadistic narrator of """"Pastoral"""" announces. Rather, False Bingo is a collection of realist fables exploring how conflicting moralities can coexist: the good, the bad, the indecipherable. | False Bingo by Jac Jemc, Paperback | Indigo Chapters