Sorrowful and funny tales of longing from the winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. Adroit, wistful, and nuanced says Kirkus Reviews. Brims with humanity and humor.Moving from the heartbreaking to the humorous and back again, Dwight Holing takes readers on a provocative journey where people must reconcile desire and reality. These stories travel terrains both exotic and familiar -- from the beautiful savagery of Africa where a couple must contend with an unspoken truth to a woman fighting for a child in an orphanage to a wind farmer falling under the spell of an island's magic to a haunting carjacking. They explore the territory in our heart where the human spirit dwells while marveling at the natural world's ability to nourish our soul.