When an anonymous email invites residents of Lanier, Indiana to take a survey about sexual practices, the town’s private lives begin to surface. Through a series of linked vignettes — from a coach recovering after Covid to a bartender turning to writing and a bureaucrat with a vendetta — the novel explores the hidden desires, tensions, and connections of a Midwestern community in the wake of the pandemic, all while the mystery of who sent the survey lingers.

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