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Mapping the Interior

  • 111 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 2 editions

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1 About this book

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.

The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.

Good for readers who want: horror, fantasy, and a short read.

  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • Indigenous
  • Magical Realism
  • Native Americans
  • Death
  • Fathers
  • Novella

2 About Stephen Graham Jones

Born 1972

Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972) is an American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. His works include the horror novels The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Jones is the Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder where he has been a faculty member since 2008.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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