The 19 short stories in this collection by award-winning author Barbara Lockhart are set in the small towns and fields that stretch across the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the land between the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean where evidence of long history and present-day struggles abounds.
In this slice of rural America, there can be seen and appreciated a sense of the raw humanity of neighbors and strangers alike, as their choices and actions reverberate over days, years, and generations.
