Books like The Unsettling by Peter Rock

In The Unsettling, Peter Rock presents a chilling and heart-wrenching collection of short stories. The protagonist, a lonely man, discovers a moldy book collection while saving them from an outbreak of mold. He then listens to a coworker's tale about a blind woman, which he transforms into a story of romance. Another story follows a woman who drives a Gold Firebird through the desert, while another girl returns to her childhood home to spy on its new inhabitants, unaware of their knowledge of her presence. These eerie tales, told through Peter Rock's imaginative and wholly original voice, explore the human condition and the relationship between the two. About the author: Peter Rock grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves, and This Is the Place. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and recipient of a 2000 NEA Fellowship, he now lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches at Reed College.

First publish date: 2006