Villains

Set across the United States and around the globe, Samantha Neugebauer's debut short story collection, Villains, follows characters longing for purpose, enchantment, and love. Bound by conflicts arising from social hypocrisy, self-mythology, and shame, often within mother-daughter relationships, these thirteen stories expose how we misread our lives, confusing what is large or small, lasting or illusory, meaningful or merely familiar. In Villains, Neugebauer delivers a stunning, seductive c...