Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Then a gentle, put-upon woman named Homily nurses the wounded Shesheshen back to health, mistaking her for human, and the monster finds herself experiencing the most alarming condition of all: love. Told entirely from Shesheshen's gloriously alien point of view, Someone You Can Build a Nest In is a cozy horror-romance that is by turns tender, gruesome and very funny, upending fairy-tale conventions to sympathize wholly with the beast.

Beneath the eyeball-eating whimsy runs a real story about abuse, chosen family and learning to be loved, as Homily's monster-hunting relatives threaten them both. Wiswell balances the macabre and the heartfelt with rare deftness.