This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Audrey Burges, author of A House Like An Accordion.

About A House Like An Accordion: Keryth Miller is disappearing.

Between the growing distance from her husband, the demands of two teenage daughters, and an all-encompassing burnout, she sometimes feels herself fading away. Actual translucence, though—that’s new. When Keryth wakes up one morning with her hand completely gone, she is frantic. But she quickly realizes two things: If she is disappearing, it’s because her father, an artist with the otherworldly ability to literally capture life in his art, is drawing her. And if he’s drawing her, that means he’s still alive.

But where has he been for the past twenty-five years, and why is he doing the one thing he always warned her not to? Never draw from life, Keryth. Every line exacts a cost. As Keryth continues to slowly fade away, she retraces what she believes to be her father’s last steps through the many homes of her past, determined to find him before it’s too late and she disappears entirely.

About Audrey Burges: Audrey writes novels, humor, satire, and essays in Richmond, Virginia. Her debut novel, The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone, was released January 24, 2023, by Berkley/PRH. Her second novel, A House Like an Accordion, was released in May 2024 by Ace/PRH.

Audrey is a frequent contributor to McSweeney’s and The New Yorker, and her stories have also appeared in Pithead Chapel, Cease, Cows, Lost Balloon, Into the Void, and numerous other outlets. Her work has been longlisted for the 2022 Wigleaf Top 50. Two of her stories placed in the 2020 Pen Parentis Fellowship, and one received a Juror’s Prize.

When Audrey isn’t writing, she’s being tolerated by her two rambunctious children and very patient husband.

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