Farewell Navigator

In this debut collection, Leni Zumas shines a bright light into the far corners of a dark, dreamlike America populated by a cast of characters on the brink of survival. A teenage boy discovers his blind mother making a pass at his new best friend; a woman works in a factory by day and tends to a menagerie of sick animals by night; an aspiring witch is disillusioned by her spiritual shortcomings; a girl from a town so small it doesn't exist on any map runs away with a rock band, all the while attempting to chart her way back home.