This book of short stories features interesting often intriguing characters and engrossing situations all told from a slightly off kilter perspective. The stories tackle issues of race, friendship, the nature of art, baseball, luck good and bad, revenge, a marriage of convenience, a minister fighting for his soul and a man who has lost his. They will take you from Mississippi in 1961 to Terlingua, Texas today, from upstate New York to Akela Flats, from the 'burbs to the desert to a small town in the Midwest. And of course there is an obituary, one unlike any you will read in your Sunday paper.