About the Book: From the International Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream comes six unsettling short stories that probe the darkness beneath everyday life: a mother stepping into water intent on ending her life, a baby left briefly unattended amid ordinary dangers, a ghost appearing in a high-rise apartment, and the dark consequences of a stranger’s kind impulse. Praised as uncanny, haunting, and deeply human, these stories explore fragility, fear, and the strange spaces just beyond the edge of terror, cementing the author’s reputation as a master of unsettling fiction.