About the author
Makenna Goodman is an American editor and novelist. Her fiction uses compact structures, unstable points of view, and dark humor to examine domestic life, authority, self-invention, and the stories people use to justify escape.
Helen of Nowhere brings a disgraced professor to a rural house for sale, where the viewing gives way to monologues and shifting voices connected to the absent former owner. The property becomes less a setting than an argument no single narrator controls.
Where to start
Start with Helen of Nowhere for Goodman's formally playful novel about a house, a compromised visitor, and the missing woman who still shapes the room.
