A beautiful suite of stories set in Spain, Africa, and North America: an elegy to love, longing, and the eternal outsider. The truth I seek lies beneath the skin, under flesh, below bone, beyond scalpel's reach. In the 1990s, Patrick Roscoe was known as the great iconoclast of Canadian fiction. As author of such acclaimed short-story collections as Birthmarks and Beneath the Western Slopes and the novels God's Peculiar Care and The Lost Oasis , his...