Pleiades: Seven Stories of Unhurried Solitude

Mara and her younger sister Portia spend their days playing in the woods of rural Florida. At night, Mara tracks the stars and dreams about living far away from kudzu vines and the blistering sun, somewhere as cold and quiet as the night sky. As an adult, however, she learns that finding one’s true place in the world is more than a simple question of geography.