Rachel Seiffert author of The Dark Room powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman to the family aided by an enemy in 'The Crossing' to the old man weighing his regrets in 'Francis John Jones 1924 -' Seiffert's acclaimed refined prose movingly captures the lives of her characters in their most essential secret moments.
A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year.