The blurred lines between enchantment and illusion takes on new magic-realist resonances in this collection of twenty-three stories and a novella. Ms. Frank creates subtle calibrations of the inner spaces and silences separating people, and the haunting undercurrents of feeling that hold them together. In the concluding novella,
The Map Maker
, those undercurrents exert an especially powerful tow, washing up a lost cargo of familial misunderstandings.