Voodoo Heart Book

Scott Snyderâ??s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyderâ??s wondrous imagination thereâ??s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actressâ??in hiding after surgeryâ??and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged coupleâ??s relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the womenâ??s prison next door. Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.Read More