All the Souls

From poignant and dangerous obsessions with the iconic, to direct, often puzzled, conversations with ghosts, the characters in this short story collection strive to make contact with the impossible. A girl becomes obsessed with a figure she only sees through a Camera Obscura; an angry man strikes up a friendship with a sixth-century saint; and a revenant mother by a mountain lake tries to explain herself to a grieving friend. With a keen sensitivity for language and storytelling, this book draws on the dark side of folklore and superstition as it explores the themes of “collecting” and recovering from the past.