An astonishing collection of short stories spanning the globe, with tales that move between art, crime and the fantastical, by a writer following in the footsteps of her mother, Margaret Atwood, with her exquisitely elegant prose and mischievous storytelling flair.
A medium with the gift of communicating with animals uses her ability to exact the perfect revenge. A stone mysteriously appears in a woman’s pocket as a talisman, only to become lodged in her partner’s throat. An arrogant artist, who considers his partner far too conventional, hosts a dinner party where he is confronted with a truth as painful as it is defining.
Through twelve perceptive, unpredictable stories, Jess Gibson explores the limits of perception and possibility, showing us how the world can change in an instant: beauty becomes repulsive, the exalted are brought low, and genius turns out to be a fraud. The men and women who inhabit Gibson’s pages find themselves caught between conflicting forces as they test the limits of understanding and certainty.
Astute, incisive, subversive and utterly original, THE GOOD EYE sweeps readers on an unforgettable journey, never resorting to easy answers, and heralds the arrival of a brilliant new voice in contemporary literature.
