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Stephen Graham Jones always provides a unique reading experience. Mapping the Interior fits that bill perfectly. On the surface this book is about a fifteen-year-old native American teen, while sleepwalking one evening, sees an image of a person stepping though a doorway. He lives with his mother and younger brother and what he observes is neither or them but bears a strong resemblance to his father who died mysteriously.

This book is deep, man. It is deep. At first, I didn't know quite what to make of this book. I often initially feel, when I pick up a book by Stepehen Graham Jones, that I am in over my head. There were a few times during the course of reading this book that I wondered just what am I reading? His writing is wonderous, mesmerizing, dripping in symbolism, deep, and dark. He takes a story about a male teenager who lives with his mother and younger brother who has seizures, and swirls in culture, identity, trauma, loss, and memory.

Mapping the Interior is in the horror genre but is more horrific than horror. I will note that this book does have bullying and violence to animals.


3.5 stars

Thank you to Tor Publishing Group | Tor Nightfire and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

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