In Where the Wind Can Find It, people are swayed off-course. From a ski resort to a church rectory, an outgrown hometown to the wilderness itself, Ben Nickol's characters find themselves at the mercy of forces at once within themselves and profoundly beyond their control. This predicament, the kind that comes with everyday living, offers no clean escapes, yet whether it is the legacy of a gambler, the impulses of an adulterer, or the despair of a washed-up athlete, this debut collection explores what it means to plot a route through one's own flaws and the long shadows of personal history.