Eight essays asking the same question from every direction it will go: how do you read a mind you can't get inside? An animal's. A machine's. A stranger's. Your own, fifteen years late.

Somewhere to Put It moves from the outside in ? across the species line, into the genuine uncertainty of artificial minds, and finally home, to a first love and a dead uncle's leather jacket. Written in open collaboration with an AI, used not as a source of ideas but as an instrument of memory, friction, and return ? a method this book also makes its subject.

A short, exact book about the cost of being formed somewhere specific, and what it takes to see past it.