Night, Neon

A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling authorFrom literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday lifefrom a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a strangers house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying Americas ideals of beauty and womanhood.Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader.Originally appearing in publications as disparate as Harpers, Vice, and Conjunctions, the stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates mastery of the suspense storyand her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.