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A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses―whether we know it or not.
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I read this because I wanted to get my hands on the first story in this collection: “No Matter Which Way She Turns.”
The problem is that even though that one was super strong, not many hit the heights of the first story. I wouldn't even say this is the strongest story, but I did find that generally stories got weaker as I went along. I liked this! I'd love to own a copy for some of the specific stories, but a few really are just... fine.