Speed Dreaming: Stories

From a captivating new author come twelve piercing stories, in which young women negotiate friendship and marriage, art and commerce, and the possibility their lives might not work out as planned. After the house of the young couple in A Cane, an Anchor goes up in flames, theyre unsure of what they lost in the fire and what theyd lost long before it. The Living asks, how would you arrange your life if you had only six months left? In Youse, two teenage girls are the targets of an attempted kidnapping. A trio of linked storiesincluding the title trackfollows Meg and Dax, a curator and a butcher who married impulsively, from their eerie honeymoon in rural Wales through Megs identity crisis when the museum where she works is destroyed, to early parenthood, when a coyotes spectral presence at their childs birthday party in a Brooklyn park suggests deeper threats.