ISBN: 030742961X 9780307429612

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 192

<b>From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made.</b><br><br> What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he’s Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who’s built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of <i>The Great Gatsby,</i> Smith’s characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself.