Land Of The Blind A Novel (p.S.) [Paperback]

InLand of the Blind, Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author ofCitizen VinceandThe Zero,explores the bonds and compromises we make as children—and the fatal errors we can make at any time in our lives. Fiendishly clever and darkly funny,Land of the Blindfollows Caroline Mabry, a weary police detective racing against the clock to investigate both a murder and two men’s darkly intertwined lives.

While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict who tells her, I'd like to confess. But he insists on writing out his statement in longhand. In the forty-eight hours that follow, the stranger confesses to not just a crime but an entire life—spinning a wry and haunting tale of youth and adulthood, of obsession and revenge, and of two men's intertwined lives.

Fiendishly clever and darkly funny,Land of the Blindspeaks to the bonds and compromises we make as children—and to the fatal errors we can make at any time.