From the author of the acclaimed short story collection "Bird North," "Empty Bones" is a novella accompanied by five equally raw, intense, and comical short stories. "Empty Bones" is weightlifting, infidelity, drunk driving, facelifts, and childbirth. It s a family and their weekend reunion. It is Lisbon to Madrid on the night train and Auckland to Wellington on a motorbike. It is the end, the beginning, and the gristly in between."