Winner of The Orison Fiction Prize, selected by Kaveh Akbar

A scholar editing a volume of journal entries by a poet-slash-amateur philosopher attends a garden party. The simultaneous accuracy and banality of this sentence does nothing, however, to prepare the reader for what awaits them in Jake Young's brilliant, uncategorizable novella. Combining elements of metafiction, magical realism, and fable, Shared Perspectives challenges the boundaries of time and consciousness we often perceive as defining our world.