These brittle towers, these damaged bystanders, are the subjects of Means' most successful stories. In the world according to Means, the charred remains, the tragedies at the centers of the clearings, are unspeakable and therefore indescribable.
Death is generally present.
In addition, Means is an author of parentheses, of jump shifts, of sudden warps into commentaries that just as quickly drop back to reality, fatally changing our ability to see with just one eye at a time.