Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. A book of stories, a book of near misses, a meditation, and a tribute to the ever- receding beauty of and sublimity of the world that is occasionally caught and held in the loose netting of language, FRAGILE is an intelligently eclectic rumination from a well-traveled and well-read storyteller. From the lush tropics of Costa Rica to the deserts of the American west, through the rivers of Alaska and into the cities of old...