Good and Evil and Other Stories

<p><b>¿No one writes like Samanta Schweblin¿ ¿ Lorrie Moore<br><br>The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. </b><br><br>A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready to snap at a touch.<br><br>Here, a young father is haunted by the consequences of a moment of distraction; tragedy is complicated by the inexplicable appearance of an injured horse; an attempted poisoning leads two writers to startling conclusions; a lonely woman¿s charity is rewarded with home-invasion. And in the shocking opening story, a mother surfaces from the depths of the lake behind her house, where she saw something awful yet alluring.<br><br>Guilt, grief and relationships severed permeate this mesmerizing collection ¿ but so do unspeakable bonds of family, love and longing, each sinister and beautiful. Step by step these unnerving