Playfully engaging with genres like science fiction, the fairy tale, and the gothic tale, the interconnected short stories here pit tiny heroes against tiny villains; the result is a stunning mapping of geography, heritage, immigration, freedom, and the mysterious forces behind epic ruins and epic successes. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.

As a Navy brat, Robert Yune moved eleven times by the time he turned eighteen. In the summer of 2012, he worked as a stand-in for George Takei and as an extra in movies such as The Dark Knight Rises, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and Father and Daughters. His fiction has appeared in the Green Mountains Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Los Angeles Review, among other places. His novel Eighty Days of Sunlight was nominated for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award; other nominees included Viet Thanh Nguyen, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie. Currently, he teaches at DePauw University, located in beautiful Greencastle, Indiana.