Julie Chappell wields her metaphors like a rapier, cutting to the quick our cultural constructs with her insight, wit and words. Her foreword aptly describes the work of this collection: "Like Nature's faultlines and their shifting boundaries, social constructions of gender, class, belief systems, ad infinitum, create faultlines and shift the boundaries of life, splitting it open, changing destinies, eroding lives, in the capricious and violent whims of human nature. The whims come to light in the depths of the crevasses, fissures, rifts, and abysses of real and imagined shifting boundaries."