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The Nothing, Lauren Davis's debut fiction collection, exists on the whisper between reality and illusion. Think Shirley Jackson's characters stuck in the damp Pacific Northwest or an Olympic Peninsula funhouse mirror held up to Karen Russell's Florida. The worlds Davis creates acknowledge the terror and seek the gifts of solitude, grief, and the unrelenting thirst for certainty within us all.
Lauren Davis has written such unnerving stories and characters that one wants to watch them unfold even after their final turn, evoking Bergman or Lynch.
-Luke Goebel, author of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours
The stories in The Nothing harbor ghosts, mountain views, movie theatres, and haunting pastorals to create a world that is both modern and eternal as fable. Davis's landscapes feel as fully inhabited as the magnificent, occasionally grotesque dreamscapes the narrators lead us into, the surreal grounded in the startlingly real. Rich with vivid details and the subtle intimacies of life, this book traverses slowly and bravely into the dark, flickering with flame and sifting through the ashes of grief to tell "graciously human" stories.
-Erin Slaughter, author of A Manual for How to Love Us
There are ghosts in these stories. Sometimes literal, other times only in metaphor or feeling, but ever present in every story in Lauren Davis's The Nothing is something just off page, under the surface, aching and yearning and pulling and haunting every sharp, minimal, perfect sentence, not unlike the way these stories themselves will get their hooks in you and keep haunting long after you've put it down.
-Aaron Burch, author of A Kind of In-Between
