Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. A Cambodian refugee negotiates the icy waters of American social and sexual life. A young couple seeks peak experiences to escape grief, only to discover that they ve brought it along with them. A teenage girl, unable to face the imminent end of her grandfather s life, risks her own life in an impulsive act. A man s fragile hold on reality becomes the key to his finding, albeit through a terrifying...