**Winner of the Twelfth Annual Believer Book Award
**A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew
Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel
publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost
stories, science fiction adventures, Victorian hashish eating, and robot
bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant
verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling.
*this night
they all seemed asleep
for a while the stark shadows
held me
only my mind moved
wildly behind my eyes
until I heard a tiny
song coming from the driver
song of a bandit's broken
heart, song of his betrayal
I slept and dreamed I was awake*