"This is a powerful, evocative book filled with the contradictions of loving things you will one day have to leave behind: a place, a person, a mood, a memory, a word. It is full of all things that we look for and return to in our literature: subtle fire, poignant humor, clear-eyed sadness, and layered love."--Scott Blackwood While Allen Wier is perhaps best known as a prizewinning novelist, he is also a master of the short story, an art he has...