Manuel Munoz: What You See in the Dark

What You See in the Dark (Algonquin)

Psycho takes place, largely, in California's Central Valley, in the infamous Bates Motel.

Manuel Muñoz, who was born in the Central Valley, imagines a crime of passion set there, which he deviously juxtaposes with

Psycho's mayhem. He asks significantly, what's a Mexican American realist doing mixing plot lines with Hitchcock, the master of suspense?

Read an excerpt from What You See in the Dark.