In this award-winning collection, listeners will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chanceof what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and darkand often darkly funnythese stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the listener who just loves a great story.