Mirror Translation

Mirror Translation details three uncanny encounters between Americans abroad and their Eastern European mirrors. A foreign exchange student develops a disturbing dependency on her friend for hire. A couple becomes obsessed with a mysterious stripper. A young backpacker transitions from an unhealthy attachment to her ex-boyfriend to a bizarre, potential entrapment with a rural family. With their slow-building, atmospheric explorations, and their patiently exposing psychological striptease, these stories beckon the reader toward strange resemblances, refractions, and transferences of selfhood, posing the question: Who—and what—is the foreigner (and who decides)?