About Uncle

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Gisler

• Book ID: 112340388
• Publisher: Two Lines Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 126 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781949641561

✦ Synopsis

**A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler's slim novel __renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness --for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata.
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At a time when she'd rather be making her own way in the world, an unnamed young woman finds herself moving to a small town at the seaside to care for her uncle. He's a disabled veteran with questionable habits, prone to drinking, gorging, and hoarding--not to mention the occasional excursion down into the plumbing, where he might disappear for days at a time. When the world begins to shut down, Uncle and his niece are forced even closer still. She knows his every move--every bathroom break he takes, every pill he swallows--and she finds herself relying on this man who is the last one person occupying an empty world with her. But then Uncle's health takes a final turn for the worse, he's sent to a hospital that...