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274 p Originally published: Little, Brown, 2012 Contents: Departures. Man and boy -- Onward -- The widow's cruse -- Last supper at Brown's -- In transit. Counting the days -- Snowblind -- The long way home -- The body swap -- The gift -- Arrivals and aftermaths. The lost seed -- Vanitas -- The hunt -- Daddy's girl -- What remains Summary: A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society, including: runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves, from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana