Stealing Away: Stories

A riveting collection of short stories set primarily in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest as well as a few international travel settings. A young girl pins her hopes on her boyfriend's illegal scheme to run away from a dead-end, small-town life. Two orphans find meaning in a discarded canteen and the death of a stray dog in the Mexican desert. Obsessed with a newspaper photo and a local murder, an accountant struggles to make sense of the crime and begins to question her marriage....
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A riveting collection of short stories set primarily in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest as well as a few international travel settings. A young girl pins her hopes on her boyfriend's illegal scheme to run away from a dead-end, small-town life. Two orphans find meaning in a discarded canteen and the death of a stray dog in the Mexican desert. Obsessed with a newspaper photo and a local murder, an accountant struggles to make sense of the crime and begins to question her marriage. Heartbroken and unhinged, a traveler crosses borders in the Middle East piecing together how he's arrived in this state and what he must do to get better. A chronic backpacker skirts cultural and moral lines in South America. Still haunted by the disappearance of a childhood friend, a Chicago accountant returns to his small-town neighborhood to find answers. The characters in these twelve stories struggle with numbness, and attempt to find some way to escape or to make peace with their lots.