When a family moves into an antebellum house on Del Rio Pike, the walls stir with memories-and so do the battles in the ceiling vents and under the floorboards. But in the shadows, where flies and mice have been waging a secret, brutal war since who knows when, they are forced to enter a truce to oust the new visitors, beginning with their cat. Through Wesson the cat's watchful eyes, the family collides with the grotesque, the absurd, and the haunting weight of history. Both darkly humorous and unsettling, this modern tale peels back layers of a house (and a family) that can never quite bury the past.