Friends and Spectres

Closed, opens at 10amIndependent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Swoon City when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a small town is an unsettling reminder that the horrors of modern life is a monster ready to possess us all. In the valley at the intersection of three towering mountains sits Cadenze, an ugly, remote town with little to its name. It's filled with tourists in the summer and dead the rest of the year, when most of its residents surrender to a sleepier existence. Except, that is, for whatever is lurking