num_pages: 304
description: A new work of philosophical suspense.Penny an artist has lived in the same apartment for decades surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier provisions were made unbeknownst to her for a room in a unique long-term care residence where Penny finds herself after one too many incidents.Initially surrounded by peers conversing eating sleeping looking out at the beautiful woods that surround the house all is well. She even begins to paint again. But as the days start to blur together Pennywith a growing sense of unrest and distruststarts to lose her grip on the passage of time and on her place in the world. Is she succumbing to the subtly destructive effects of aging or is she an unknowing participant in something more unsettling?At once compassionate and uncanny told in spare hypnotic prose Iain Reids genre-defying third novel explores questions of conformity art productivity relationships and what ultimately it means to grow old.
language: English
title: We Spread
publisher: Gallery/Scout Press