The Taiga Syndrome

From the author of The Iliac Crest, a Lynchian noir where an Ex-Detective tracks a missing couple in a ravaged no-man’s-land.

Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award

A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple that has fled to the far reaches of the Earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down – that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation serves to betray both sense and the senses. The stories of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective’s quest. As she enters a territory overrun with the primitive excesses of capitalism – accumulation and expulsion, corruption and cruelty –the lessons of her journey unfold: that sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.

• | Author: Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Jill Levine, Aviva Kana
• | Publisher: And Other Stories
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781911508687
• | ISBN-10: 1911508687