The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on
the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every
house is haunted. A drug dealer's girlfriend signs up for the first
manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to
turn her into a bird. A teenaged girl and her best friend test their
relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping
hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that
only she can see. Full of longing and strange humor, these subtle,
complex stories--about the love between a man and his pet crow, an
alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper
reporter--show how love ties us to each other and to the world. The
Dark and Other Love Stories announces the emergence of a wonderfully
gifted storyteller whose stories enlarge our perceptions about the human
capacity to love.