Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her status as one of America's greatest contemporary writers with Cardiff, by the Sea, a collection of four bone-chilling novellas. The collection includes the foreboding tales of a woman who inherits a house from an unknown relative, a young girl who finds a protector in a stray cat, a pregnant college student whose professor isn't the mentor she believes, and a boy who survives his mother's breakdown that left her and his sister dead only to find his new stepmother seems to be haunted by the traumas of the past.
Out Oct. 6