The author is grateful to The Collagist, Construction Magazine, and Slice Magazine for publishing an excerpt from this novel.
About the Author
NORMAN LOCK’S recent story collection, Love Among the Particles, was published in 2013 by Bellevue Literary Press. The House of Correction enjoyed a successful run during the 2013 theater season in Istanbul and opened in Warsaw and Athens in 2014. His latest radio play, Mounting Panic, premiered in 2013 in Germany. He has won The Paris Review Aga Kahn Prize for Fiction and the Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, and has been awarded writing fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts (1999, 2013), the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (2009), and the National Endowment for the Arts (2011).