Mr. Montessori and his family return home from a trip to the beach to discover that their sofa is different. Once dark and contemporary, it's now antique, green and yellow, and smelling faintly of damp. Its appearance and origins are a mystery. A joke? An inverted theft? A break in the fabric of reality? Yes, the police take the "crime" seriously. But what happens next lies outside their expertise.
A short and eerily effective update on the suburban Gothic genre. Mr. Munson seeds the otherwise ordinary setting with ominously recurring symbols and side characters ... But the story sustains its atmosphere of disquiet by refusing to give away its secrets until the final sentences.
Surreal, grimly humorous, and intense ... For fans of horror that uses a mundane object to frame a story to hold readers’ nervous systems hostage, keep their eyes glued to the page, and thwart the instinct to look away.
