The Marbled Swarm

From an award-winning author comes a novel that's “a mesmerizing, labyrinthine tour through an especially hellish father-son relationship” ( Vanity Fair ). “An American master. . . . Cooper is the most important transgressive literary artist since Burroughs.” — Salon In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape—and the most compelling clue to its final nature is “the marbled swarm” itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down