The Blind Man's Mirror: Stories

In his debut collection of short stories, Chris Peterson explores the crippling emotional unawareness that leads to disaster in so many men's lives. From the high school virgin who discovers sex is everything except what he thought it was, to the cancer patient who wrestles with the biggest questions of all only to come up empty, Peterson's characters share a blindness that cripples and undermines who they are and who they could be. That makes The Blind Man's Mirror an accounting of loss and unrequited wanting, the chronicle of a uniquely male condition for which there is rarely a cure.