A disturbing novel of domestic unease, part thriller and part psychological drama, from a young American writer of exceptional talent.

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Fred G. Leebron, a graduate of Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has published stories in magazines and anthologies such as Tin House, DoubleTake, Grand Street, Ploughshares, the North American Review, TriQuarterly, and Flash Fiction. He is author of the novels Out West, Six Figures, and In the Middle of All This; coeditor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology; and coauthor of Creating Fiction: A Writer’s Companion. The Canadian production of Six Figurespremiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2005, and the film rights for his short story “Life in Wartime” has been optioned several times. Awards for his writing include an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a James Michener Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, and Stanford University, and currently, he also serves as program director of the Low Residency MFA in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, and as director for the Tinker Mountain Writers Workshop at Hollins University. His personal essays appear frequently in publications such as More magazine, Parenting magazine, and Redbook,and have been anthologized in trade market anthologies such as The Eleventh Draft (HarperCollins), Money Changes Everything (Doubleday), and The Bastard on the Couch (HarperCollins).