In these stories, set in Montana, the North American West, and farther afield, Brady Harrison explores the fragile ties that bind, and often break, as the characters do their best to navigate the complexities of a sometime chaotic, sometime hopeful, sometime violent world. In the opening story, "The Guest," a reporter attempts to understand the actions of a woman involved in a devastating accident. In "The Sumerian in the Driveway," a transplanted...