The Taiga Syndrome
by Cristina Rivera Garza
"A detective is hired to find a runaway wife — the forest has other plans."
An ex-detective is sent into the taiga to trace a woman who fled with her lover, leaving telegrams like breadcrumbs. What follows is a fairy-tale noir — Hansel and Gretel by way of ecological dread — where language itself starts to fray at the tree line. Short, strange and impossible to shake.
Worth knowing
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award — from an author who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
