Evoking a strong sense of place, Mark Poirier paints a vivid portrait of today's American West. In this swiftly paced collection we are treated to a cast of characters as diverse as the face of modern America: trailer park dwellers, barflies, crystal-reading gurus, pig farmers, disaffected teenagers, dispirited retirees, and even some prosperous and relatively solid citizens.
From a woman who finds in her job - at least briefly - the warmth and stability she never found at home to a pair of young men who bond with each other as a way of filling the emotional chasms carved out by their dysfunctional families, the people who inhabit Poirier's Tucson have their own particular ways of seeking, finding and losing emotional connections that shape lives everywhere.
