For fans of Hanif Kureishi and Mar­garet Atwood, this col­lec­tion of thir­teen grip­ping and intrigu­ing short sto­ries are about sex­u­al­i­ty, death, obses­sion, and reli­gion. Some­times bleak, occa­sion­al­ly vio­lent, and often pos­sessed of a dark humor, each sto­ry con­tains char­ac­ters who are flawed indi­vid­u­als try­ing their best to make sense of their lives.