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A collection of stories that ranges from cruel, trying lifestyles in rural Ireland to the hot landscape of the American South features characters whose dreams, memories, and chance-taking can have debilitating consequences for others.
A debut collection of short stories by an award-winning Irish writer explores the fragility, obsession, and betrayal of human relationships in such works as "Love in the Tall Grass" and "Passport Soup," about a man mourning the bizarre disappearance of his young daughter and trying to console his shattered wife.