The stories in this collection are varied in tone and style but are consistently excellent. I find that I‘m thinking a lot about the epigraph, which is from Seamus Heaney‘s poem “Punishment,” a poem about complicity. And I‘m wondering how or whether to see this collection with that frame—many of the stories are about the ways people fail each other, about cruelty or loss or missed opportunity. Lots to think about, for sure.