Author Description

<i>The Whole World at Once</i> is a collection of intense stories about the experience of loss. A soldier returns home from multiple tours only to begin planting landmines in the field behind his house; kids chase a ghost story up country roads only to become one themselves; one girl copes with the anniversary of her sister's disappearance during the agricultural fair, while another girl searches for understanding after seeing the picture of a small boy washed onto a beach.<br> &nbsp;<br> Dark, strange beauties, all of&nbsp;the&nbsp;stories in <i>The Whole World at Once</i> follow the lives of people grappling with what it means to live in a world with death.<br> &nbsp;