"Hibernate "is a big-hearted and brutal story collection. In these globe-spanning stories, Elizabeth Eslami follows ordinary men and women who slowly awaken to hard choices. A fishing trip forces two Montana brothers to grow up in ways they never could have imagined. A Sudanese immigrant begins a new life with his girlfriend in America, only to find himself pulled toward his mother s past transgressions. A group of tourists visits an Indian pueblo and realizes their tour guide isn t at all who they expected. A shipwrecked captain and his men cling to the company of narwhals and Eskimos. And...