The Other Mrs. Smith will shock and move you

The Other Mrs. Smith, a novel
Bonnie Burstow | Inanna Publications and Education
448 pp., $22.95
Talk about beginning your story “in medias res!”
“An eerie smell in the air, as if a tin plate had been accidentally left on a red hot burner. Bloated bodies dressed in white floating over me. Something cold and sticky on my temples. Something rubbery in my mouth. A band pressing in around my head …. Straps wrapped around my legs, shoulders, torso. … Can’t move a