A novella in stories: In this subtle and nuanced probing of family dynamics, a brother and sister find themselves "in the middle of the kind of stillness that comes from size." She wants to disappear; he likes mysteries.From the title story: "The sunrise over Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni upset proportion. The salted ground was so dry it cracked like hammered plaster, but the rain from the day before left round films reflecting purple, pink, and orange. Dane couldn't tell where the salt flat ended and the sky began, and when he glanced at his sister Jenny she looked like someone thicker. She wore a lot of layers." Alison Turner was born in the mountains of Colorado, where she learned to spend large amounts of time outside. She has an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, and an MFA in fiction from Bennington College. Each book she reads makes her certainty smaller, and each time she travels the world feels larger. She has other stories published in Little Patuxent Review, Mixed Fruit, and Extracts.
