Fear Knot: How Science, History, and Culture Shape Our Fears – and How to Get Unstuck

Fear Knot: How Science, History, and Culture Shape Our Fears – and How to Get UnstuckWhy do we fear Halloween candy but not vending machines? Why do witch hunts recur so often in history? How dangerous are serial killers, really? The Fear Knot examines our most common deeply held fears, unpacking which are valid and which are misguided, explaining the history of how our irrational fears developed, and how we can unlearn them. We live in a world seemingly rife with danger, a villainous stranger or new deadly bacteria lurking around

and chronically serious

I’ve had enuffalo

We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable

Animal Crossing’s soothing retail therapy is analyzed in “Real Time”—a surprisingly powerful portrait of late capitalism

But Oscar may never get what he wants

Sometimes friends hold you together

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way

literally shifting the land beneath people’s feet

” —Bobby Finger

From National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon

and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and