Description: Short stories that use inanimate objects and how humans relate to them to examine grief, environmental disaster, and other themes of contemporary life.
Review Quotes: "This astonishingly beautiful book of interlocking stories has at its center things and people that are about to disappear. Sometimes what has been lost, however, can be recovered. It is as if all these stories compose one large story, an emotional journey of the lost and found. It should be read from beginning to end--people and things, such as a barber pole, migrate from one story to another. A wonderful book." --Charles Baxter