To the Kennels: And Other Stories

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Six elephants escape from an amusement park and vanish. A woman discovers her apartment is shrinking. A couple's new pet becomes the site of their marital cold war. Pyun Hye-young's stories take ordinary situations and push them one degree past comfortable, into territory where the uncanny and the mundane share the same address. From the author of The Hole, this collection demonstrates the range of Pyun's unsettling imagination — each story a small closed system where something is wrong, the characters can feel it, and the resolution is never the one they expected. The prose is precise and the unease is persistent. Stories about the moment things stop making sense — told by a writer who understands that the strangest horrors are the ones that happen indoors.