Margaret F. Chen
'An anthology of short stories about loneliness and unreachable happiness.' - Kirkus Reviews'An excellent collection of emotionally-fraught fiction.' - Kirkus Reviews '...handles vulnerability, coercive relationships, and emotional isolation with insight.' -The BookLife PrizeIn these four short stories and one novella, strangers, outcasts, and the isolated travel far and wide and across distant lands and dimensions in search of family, love, freedom, and rest. Upon the precipice of the eleventh hour, each must decide whether to go forward or stay, to persist or succumb, to resist or surrender, as they face temptations, dangers, and mysteries seemingly without answers or an end. 6