You won't want to put down this collection of twenty-two tales of survival and hope. They will keep you up at night and haunt you long past reading the last word. Ten of them are published here for the first time. "Jane Elsdon's stories will break your heart-and bind it up again." These stories take us from an everyday shopping trip in "The Redemption Dress," to the exotic spiritual journey of a lifetime in "Pilgrimage in Braille," when Sophie, its feisty, aging librarian protagonist signs up for a hike in the Himalayas. From the perilous vision quest of a Native American youth in the...