The Pre-War House

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A brooding uncle takes an au pair’s passport. Years of tension between a father and a son erupt with violent consequences. A man disappears along a lonely mail route . . . and it has happened before. From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Lighthouse comes this uncanny collection of short fiction about the unhomeliness of home: Fractured families, domestic claustrophobia, and the unseen menace of the everyday. With the same emotional tension and tightly controlled prose that garnered her first novel such accolades, Moore once again shines a light into the darkest corners of the human heart, moving deftly from Ten Moore’s stories upend suddenly by a danger like the steady tow of an undercurrent … Moore’s writing is surprising and exact and culminates in the title story, the novella which brings the collection to a powerful crescendo. —Arkansas International