The Wonder Garden

"These linked short stories probe the hidden lives of a small Connecticut town. The Wonder Garden’s protagonists may seem like your ordinary upper-class New England suburbanites, but lurking underneath are stories both grotesque and tragic: a man who becomes obsessed with touching a human brain; a woman who has stopped her car at a stop sign and can’t bring herself to start it again; an artist who covers a client’s home in giant insects. A weird and compelling collection."