Monkey Droppings - Trauma by Patrick McGrath

On today's menu: loss and desire, with a side of psychoanalysis.





Trauma
by Patrick McGrath

I stood on the sidewalk and stared at it, and it stared back at me, sagging, unsafe, condemned, and the blocked windows were like dead eyes, blank and opaque but pregnant, somehow, with secrets, like a trauma built of wood.

There are two things you can almost always expect when you crack open a Patrick McGrath:
you are going to discover an intricate, highly literate examination of the darker impulses of humanki