"A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia, and prods her to give up her secrets. A pair of grieving teenages audition for work as phone-sex operators. As a newly unemployed woman watches a field of bison, she feels herself turning into one of them. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, a lovelorn experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: a monumental piece about humanity's shared purpose"-- Provided by publisher.
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