In Sean Ennis’s Rat Aesthetics, we meet the Old Rats: a mysterious motorcycle gang that has quietly infiltrated Bramble, Missouri. They aren't your typical outlaws. They eat duck confit croque madames at the local bistro and host charity rides for the animal shelter—but they also peddle designer drugs and puncture the bus tires of the high school basketball team’s rivals.

Bramble, however, is just as strange as the gang. A television crew has arrived to film a reality show about clairvoyants (much to the fury of local psychics Mrs. Miller and Son), and there is a specific seat at the Mall’s TGI Fridays perfectly attuned to the frequency of human sadness.

There is too much to say and even more to discover. The world of Bramble is expansive, and this is only the beginning. Sand and Gravel is thrilled to present this strange, singular work.