Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl w
ith wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat grav
eyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant
crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Ca
mp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3
, Somnambulists...); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and fina
lly, in the collection's poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raise
d by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns.
