Imperfect Creatures

<p><em>A metafictional mind-melter where time means nothing and everything at once Joe Butler's third novel blends visual elements epistolary sections and cyclical narratives to plumb the depths of loss of grief of horror.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Clare returns home to Harrow hits a man with her car has a panic attack goes to her father's funeral searches for his notes on his final book then Clare returns home to Harrow hits a deer with her car has a panic attack goes to her father's funeral meets a stranger called Jack searches for her dad's notes then Clare returns home to Harrow narrowly misses a man with her car has a panic attack skips her dad's funeral doesn't meet a non-stranger called Jack searches for her dad  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And that's before everything falls apart.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An unyielding plunge into memory grief and the instability of reality </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Imperfect Creatures</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explores one woman's experience with the House-an eldritch creature that feeds on pain and suffering predating humankind's shared conceptual universe. As Clare attempts to reckon with her mother's traumatic death when she was a child and her father's recent passing the House draws her further and further into a web of illusion and realization through phone calls hallucinations and a constant repetition repetition repetition of pain and horror.</span></p>