A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination

Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch -- Open the door and the light pours through -- Dead boy's last poem -- Dreadful young ladies -- Taxidermist's other wife -- Elegy to Gabrielle, patron saint of healers, whores, and righteous thieves -- Notes on the untimely death of Ronia Drake -- Insect and the astronomer: a love story -- Unlicensed magician