Mapping the Interior
By: Stephen Graham Jones ; edited by Ellen Datlow
Contributors: Datlow, Ellen, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tordotcom; Tor.com Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780765395108
Subjects: Indian dance; Death; Indians of North America; Fathers; Clothing; Sleepwalking; Fiction
First sentence: I was twelve the first time I saw my dead father cross from the kitchen doorway to the hall that led back to the utility room.
Description: Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them ... at terrible cost.
Notes: "A Tor.com book."