The Tangled Woods
2018
First Published
2.85
Average Rating
37
Number of Pages
He went on the road expecting the worst of America, but what if the worst of America was also in him? This is the unsettling story of a man in a midlife crisis and his unexpected awakening, by award-winning writer Emily Raboteau. Poison-tongued film critic Reginald Wright is known for his creative insults and intolerance for the garbage culture, insufferable rudeness, and thoughtless racism of predictably common people. Now, against his better judgment, and with a marriage in crisis, he’s attempting a getaway in the Poconos that quickly fulfills his every low expectation. In fact, it’s becoming a nightmare. And that’s just what Reginald needs to wake up. Emily Raboteau’s The Tangled Woods is part of Dark Corners, a collection of seven heart-stopping short stories by bestselling authors who give you so many new reasons to be afraid. Each story can be read in a single sitting. Or, if you have the nerve, you can listen all by yourself in the dark.
Avg Rating
2.85
Number of Ratings
3,571
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Author
Emily Raboteau
Author · 5 books
Emily Raboteau is an avid world traveler and professor at City College, in Harlem. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Victor LaValle, and their children. Her stories and essays have been widely published and anthologized in places such as The New Yorker, The Believer, The Guardian, The Oxford American, Guernica, McSweeney's, Tin House, Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Short Stories. Raboteau's awards include a Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award. She is at work completing her second novel, Endurance, about a New York City building superintendent and his son with autism.
