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From the stunning first story, "Singing My Sister Down," these ten stories are mesmerizing. Whether post-apocalyptic, dystopian, or primeval, each diverges from our ordinary view of reality yet illumines such verities as courage, loyalty, and love. Their perspectives are closely encompassed by their first-person narrators' circumstances, revealed (minimally, obliquely) as the action unfolds among marvelously strange concrete details.