Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Governor-General''s Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writer''s Prize, Caroline Adderson''s short fiction collection travels far and wide. From adolescent brothers marooned at an indifferent relatives cottage, to a Depression-era Ukrainian immigrant reading the drought-parched skies above Palliser''s Triangle, to two friends trying to make sense of feminism in the eighties, Adderson captures her characters'' cadences, conflicts, and consolations, their individual burdens and the mysteries they share. Adventurous, often funny, and impeccably researched, these stories chart their lives with compassion and intelligence.