The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic

An enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers. A young man delays an impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother's pet pig. Sharp and uneasy, these tales, from an author whose work has been anthologized in O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Mystery Stories, explore how the same things that bind these characters most closely-offering stability and identity and comfort-also set them back, pull them down, burden, limit, and ruin them.