"My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place." And now Doyle Redmond, thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real live trouble. On the lam in his soon-to-be ex-wife's Volvo, he's running a family errand back in his boyhood home of West Table, M[...]

Features fourteen short stories from the author of "Town Smokes" and "The Wrecking Yard". This collection bristles with portraits of the grotesque, the ignorant, the disconsolate, the cruel and the lonely, and all of them heading to those singular incidents in which we find recognition, epiphany and[...]