Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi: 2 books

**Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner of the John Gardner Award for Fiction “Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.”*****—***Wall Street Journal “A tragicomic...

A man purchases a house, the house of Fra Keeler, moves in, and begins investigating the circumstances of the latter’s death. Yet the investigation quickly turns inward, and the reality it seeks to unravel seems only to grow more strange, as the narrator pursues not leads but lines of thought, most often to hideous conclusions.