“These gripping magical tales span time travel portals menacing butterflies and more. A
can’t-miss meditation on families and survival.” — People “A gorgeous book that also serves
as a series of unanswerable probing questions: How did we get here? How will we move forward?
Can we still love despite the wreckage? This is devastating work and I mean that as a
compliment. Very rarely have I come across a set of stories so genuinely moving. A searing
collection that attempts to place the world delicately in our fumbling undeserving hands.”
—Kristen Arnett New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth A
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025: Lit Hub The Millions What do we owe our family and friends
in times of wild uncertainty? That’s the question the women of Leyna Krow’s beguiling darkly
fabulist story collection grapple with as they strive to be good mothers daughters sisters
grandmothers wives and companions in a world that is constantly shifting around them. Set in
the Pacific Northwest these stories blend high concept magic with the sometimes subtle other
times glaring realities of climate change. As protagonists contend with doppelgänger babies
hordes of time travelers mysterious portals and supernatural siblings there lurks in the
background the effects of the region’s rapidly shifting environment. There are wildfires wind
storms unrelenting heat disrupted butterfly migration patterns a new plague and a
catastrophe on the slopes of Mount Rainier that reverberates through three generations of a
single family over the course of a half dozen linked stories. With Krow’s signature blend of
sardonic whimsy and unsettling insight Sinkhole and Other Inexplicable Voids imagines the
rules to be broken choices to be made and even crimes to be had for the sake of the people
and places we love.
