In these deftly imagined stories, R.L. Prendergast celebrates a love of reading and the idiosyncratic ways that storytelling knits people together across generations. A chain of linked voices, each smartly and vividly evoked, reminds us how worlds created on the page can simultaneously transform us and allow us to find ways to be most true to ourselves.

– Catherine Bush, author of Claire's Head, a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year,
and The Rules of Engagement