Description: By the widely praised author of Jack and The Safety of Objects, an enthralling and ultimately terrifying new novel. An aspiring young filmmaker marked by her habit of relentless achievement and a sensible middle-aged counselor of troubled souls develop a friendship that allows each to escape her prescribed roles.
Review Quotes: "Homes...has the ability to scare you half to death....[She is] devastating...a very dangerous writer."
--Washington Post Book World
--Wall Street Journal "Intriguing...captures a world spinning out of control....Homes is at her best evoking the pathos and obsession at the center of relationships between therapist and patient, mother and child, husband and wife. She is also wickedly funny. [This is] a psychologically gripping story."
--San Francisco Chronicle