The small, bland town of Shimmer, Maryland, doesn't have much going for it when grad student Xavier arrives. He's there to research two artists whose vastly different styles captivated him and to find out if there's some connection between them, other than the use of a particularly bright shade of fuchsia in their works. But when Xavier arrives, he soon discovers that he's right — there's something magnetic about Shimmer marsh that makes even the least creative people obsessively make art, and it's not necessarily a good thing.
Told in time-hopping vignettes, Gidney's short novel ties together several generations of Shimmer's downtrodden and outcast. It's a haunting book, full of shifting ground and unknown threats, much like the marsh at the center of the book. One thing's for certain: this book will stay with me for quite a while.
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