In DOVETAIL JOINT AND OTHER STORIES, Lenore Rowntree portrays the subtle deceits of intimacy that arise when an expectation is not met. We encounter Vanessa in six linked stories at five distinct and evocative moments in her life, as she moves through a series of beautifully drawn relationships and landscapes. Rowntree explores the value of both persistence and its opposite in the Cubist portrait of a complex woman who will linger in your mind.