"Robert Abel is a master storyteller. I loved his novels, "Freedom Dues" and The "Progress of a Fire." Now he has written tales that are marvelously readable and wonderfully unpredictableNgorgeously crafted, gracefully turned, utterly compelling. They penetrate down to extraordinary layers of menace and joy, revealing strange and exhilarating truths about the way we live now." -Jay Neugeboren Robert Abel is a writer, teacher, and journalist. He lives in North Hadley, Massachusetts."