A fantastic horror novel that you may have missed
Interior cartography by Stephen Graham Jones
Junior is 12 years old, living in a trailer with her mother who works hard and his brother Dino, who had health problems and problems with the intimidators at school. These are just the three since Junior and Dino’s father drowned eight years ago. Was it a tragic accident? Has anyone intentional to him? It is not clear, but in the end, the results are the same. Junior lost his father and Dino does not even remember having had a father.
Then a junior night wakes up to find his father standing there, dressed in Dance of Amerindian fantasy, something that the father of Junior did not even wear when they lived in the reserve. But perhaps this is a new version of his father – the one who is ready to be there for his family. Maybe he will be able to help junior protect Dino from the outside world. Maybe he will be there to support his mother.
Desperate to have his father in his life and to discover the truth about the strange vision he saw in the night, Junior begins to chase him throughout the house, leaving no corner of their unrelated space. But is his father really back to protect him? Or does he want to take something from them?
The thing that reminds me of horror novels again and again is their incessant examination of sorrow and the loss and emptiness that death can leave behind. This is the kind of vacuum that will desperately grasp any type of sign – no matter the size or size – that everything will go again. I felt despair in this news so strongly on each page. This sorrow was real and intense. It only took a few pages to feel a deep sympathy and an understanding of all these characters, and I cried for them.
Interior cartography Easily became one of my favorite books by Stephen Graham Jones. If you are a fan of this author and you have not yet picked up this one, this news has everything you like in him: a beautiful and deliberate prose, an emotional depth, moments of true terror, and yes, moments of humor too. If you have never read Stephen Graham Jones, it would be an excellent introduction to his work. And even if you read Interior cartography Before, this new edition is an opportunity to reread history with new eyes. It even includes a new note from the author.
