Closed Over

A lonely accounts clerk is humiliated by a child in a crowded restaurant, and from that small wound grows a monstrous certainty. Closed Over follows a man named Betty as a private theory curdles into the unthinkable — and as grace, when it comes, arrives sideways and undeserved, through the very people his sickness taught him to fear.

A novel about humiliation and the ideologies it breeds, about indifference and the marks it leaves, and about a man who spends the rest of his life learning to listen, and to be listened to. Unflinching and quietly devastating, Closed Over asks whether a person can be made worthy of the trust he has no right to hold — and refuses to lie about the answer.