This is my second Victor LaValle book [after The Ballad of Black Tom] and I would definitely recommend it for someone who wants to get a good sense of his writing style - He's very good at blending normal every day situations with horror elements - but is looking for something short. The very end of this kind of threw me for a loop but I know it's technically a prequel to another book so it guess it does make sense in that context, it's just not necessarily what makes the most sense to me.