Award winning author Eric Gunter delivers a bleak world slightly skewed from ours, a modern dystopia where, in the past, racial ideas were bent to form the fabric of a new society. In Sparagmos, that society has been limping along for decades. Gunter's portrayal of the long-term effects of social engineering is discordant and haunting. In an allegorical rendering of the Dionysian sparagmos, the characters are psychologically dismembered and sewn back together. The characters' transitions are brutal and real, and what those characters become is much worse.