This Book Lies to You

About the Book

The book controls the words on the page. You provide the rest.

A child crouches at the window of a psychiatric hospital. A fox waits in a kitchen. A wealthy man has a disturbing fixation with numbers. A flight attendant boards a flight that should not exist.

Sixteen stories. Sixteen carefully constructed realities.

Each one gives you enough information to understand what is happening. Or at least to believe that you do. Then one detail changes everything.

But This Book Lies to You does something most collections of twist stories do not: after deceiving you, it shows you exactly how the deception worked.

Framing. Confirmation bias. Selective attention. Reality monitoring. Inference. Overconfidence. The psychological shortcuts that allow stories—and people—to manipulate what we believe we have seen.

Darkly playful, unsettling, and sometimes brutal, This Book Lies to You is both a collection of mind-bending short fiction and an experiment in perception.

The book controls the words on the page. You provide the rest.