if you're raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house. you will find him even when he is not there. and if one day you find that there is no angry man in your house – well, you will go find one and invite him in!

A collection of electrifying stories from one of America's best writers, the acclaimed author of Biography of X.

Across the nine stories in My Stalkers, women are constantly confronted with the thrill, banality and horror of becoming someone else – or no one at all – on account of men, technology, bureaucracy or their own folly. A woman finds a coat that isn’t hers, and its appearance sets off a chain of events that destroys her life as she knows it. A mountain spontaneously materialises in rural Kansas, composed entirely of semiconscious men, provoking a female amateur athlete to climb it. Desperate to live any life but her own, a woman works as a Life Rotator, anonymously shuffled between a series of sparsely furnished homes in average American cities; her stalker finds her anyway, and threatens to topple her artificial stability. With penetrating insights into the absurdities of modern life, Lacey once again reveals the disquieting and darkly humorous forces at work beneath the surface of the ordinary.