A Croatian immigrant in Wyoming tries to make sense of his inscrutable new surroundings. Following a brutal attack, a woman endures haunting images and a husband short on sympathy. After his mother's death, a software developer returns to work and hardly recognizes his own actions. A winter afternoon drive exposes the distance between high school friends.
In these stories and essays, people grapple with events that hurl them into unexpected places and force them to confront difficult truths.