'Chris Kraus reinvents the true-crime novel.' --The New Yorker ' Kraus's] version of a classic American tragedy...a dazzling, refined work, formally and otherwise--at once tracking the far-reaching tentacles of addiction, and the trajectory of an almost unrecognizable America.' --Bookforum A critically acclaimed novel from Chris Kraus--author of the classic I Love Dick, a cult literary figure, and one of autofiction's truest innovators--about addiction, violence, and the American underclass. On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called 'meth community,' the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they'd bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Locked into a period of personal turmoil,