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The Good Eye

byJess Gibson

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Men and women confront the limits of their perception as reality shifts around them, in this startlingly original debut short-story collection

A stone appears in a woman’s pocket like a charm only to end up lodged in someone’s throat. A psychic harnesses her talent for animal communication to extract a perfect revenge. A woman goes pheasant shooting with her father-in-law and husband, switching her aim between the birds and the men. A condescending artist throws a dinner party, where he discovers a painful and consequential truth.

In these twelve exquisite and uncanny stories, the world can change in an instant. The beautiful can suddenly become grotesque, the exalted disgraced, the genius an imposter. Ranging across the globe through the worlds of art, crime and fantasy, each character turns their gaze on themselves and on each other, to confront what they see with their good eye – and their bad.
The Good Eye is the kind of collection I’m always looking for and never seem to quite find. The power in these beautifully understated stories is in the concision — and precision— of the language. No gimmicks here just direct, clear-eyed prose. And moving, human struggles on the page.
Peter Orner

About Jess Gibson

Jess Gibson, born in Canada, moved around the world with her family, attending schools in England, Germany, the United States, Australia, and France. She later studied at McGill and the University of Toronto, and she received her PhD in Art History from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her spouse and child.
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  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • ISBN: 9781787336148
  • Length: 176 pages
  • Price: £16.99
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