The Hardings are teetering on the brink. Elson - once one of Houston's most promising architects, who never quite lived up to expectations - is recently divorced from his wife of thirty years, Cadence. Their grown son, Richard, is still living at home: driving his mother's minivan, working at a loca[...]

These ten stories take us across the country--from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut--and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. "The Theory of Light and Matter "is a stunningly astute vision of contemporary American suburbia, full [...]

In York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He tells Jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in[...]