Robin, an American backpacker low on money but infatuated with travel and beauty, and Piv, her charismatic Thai lover who dreams of a better life, become embroiled in the dangerous world of internatio
"Allison Amend is a gifted storyteller, whose view of contemporary life is often wonderfully acute, original, and surprising."-Alison Lurie, author of Foreign Affairs: a Novel Allison Amend's writing
?Tod Goldberg's stories are not like faceted jewels. They are like glinting barbed wire, actually, roped across the field where you are reading, racing, wondering what's next, and then pierced with lo
