What happens when you can no longer tell what’s real and what’s not?

From the Publisher:

They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect.

But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages.

Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall. When Hank pulls back the wallpaper, he discovers dozens of sheets of paper, full of a story that is either complete madness or unbelievable truth. As he begins looking beyond the veneer of his smiling neighbors and their white picket fences, Hank is drawn further and further into a disturbing new reality …

Are you sure the reality you’re living in is actually the real world? Told in such a way that we are thrust into Bethlam and immediately sympathetic to Hank, Jon Bassoff has written a thoughtful and provocative story about humanity, what it means to be human, and how unstable memory can be. Is Hank Davies REALLY living an idyllic life in Bethlam?

A cross between The Stepford Wives and TJ Klune’s Murmuration, this book will leave you wondering whether your own reality is the truth, or a cover up for something sinister. It is a study in what our society could look like, given the technology and science…but do we want that? Without giving too much away, I will say this book makes you think about how we treat people deemed unworthy of existing in our society.

Trigger Warnings and Themes: Suicide, medical trauma.

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