At the center of this stellar collection are three imaginative sisters who have grown up in a world colored by loss and anticipatory grief, painting their lives with great swathes of anxiety and sadness. We hear stories of a great-uncle bitten by a shark, a lion who slaughters a deer, a tornado, fleeing horses, and a boy who hangs himself from a tree. To counter these terrors and to fill the void, the sisters create an intimate secret fantasy world,...
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