Product Description: In isolated British Columbia, girls, mostly native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway. Leo Kreutzer and his four friends are barely touched by these disappearances-until a series of mysterious and troublesome outsiders come to town...read more

A sophisticated collection of stories, in the same vein as Alice Munro, is told from varied perspectives that capture human suffering, including 'The Eight Sleeper of Ephesus,' in which a recluse begins writing angry letters to the editor of his estranged son's small-town paper to form a connection to the outside world. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A sophisticated collection of stories, in the same vein as Alice Munro, is told from varied perspectives that capture human suffering, including 'The Eight Sleeper of Ephesus,' in which a recluse begins writing angry letters to the editor of his estranged son's small town paper to form a connection to the outside world. (view table of contents)