Ranging in settings from the foothills of rural Appalachia to the upper-class wealth of privileged New England to the raging battlefields of World War I, this collection of stories examines the lives of men and women struggling to overcome hardship, misfortune, and their own limitations and failures. In the title story, "Sequoyah Hills," a young protagonist must take care of his aging grandmother, and as he begins to understand that her decline is...