12 year old Junior walks through the house in the middle of the night and is startled to see someone else through a doorway. It’s not his mother or his younger brother. It’s his late father, who passed away mysteriously before his family left the reservation. Following his father he discovers this house is bigger than he previously thought. For the next couple nights Junior tries to map the house while unintentionally putting his younger brother in danger.

This novella was an exploration of grief, Indigenous superstitions and culture, and that cusp where boy must go through the coming of age period. Stephen Graham Jones has the ability to wrench your feelings out of you slowly and leave them suspended. The writing was characteristically Jones - atmospheric, tense, off beat and complex, 4✨.