Deeply rooted in settings such as New Orleans, Montreal, and rural Canada, these stories thoughtfully examine characters and worlds fraught with obsession, isolation, longing, and loneliness. With the sense and scope of Wendell Berry and Ron Rash, Michael Caleb Tasker's haunting All Gone Now examines lives touched by absent parents, escaped convicts, and looming hurricanes in slowly changing worlds, peopled with beaten souls that refuse erosion.