Author:
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Imprint:New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Description:X, 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Departures -- Man and boy -- Onward -- The widow's cruse -- Last supper at Brown's -- In transit -- Counting the days -- The long way home -- The Body swap -- The gift -- Arrivals and aftermaths -- The lost seed - Vanitas -- The hunt -- Daddy's girl -- What remains.
Note:A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.
