The Dead Are More Visible

Eleven profoundly moving and finely crafted stories encapsulate wildly divergent themes of love and loss, containment and exclusion. Stories include those about a parks and recreation worker who faces an assailant who does not leave the altercation intact, a medical researcher and his claustrophobic fiancée who are locked in the trunk of their car after a failed carjacking and a young woman who enters a pharmaceutical trial in the outer reaches of suburbia and slips between sleeping and waking with increasingly alarming ease.