This collection introduces the reader to an array of characters from the Midwest, Pacific Northwest, California, and the South whose lives lead them toward truths they ignore, resist, and explore - sometimes all at the same time. Often more is revealed about the characters by the things they don't say than by the things they do. Many are painfully naïve as to their own nature. Lee's clean, unembellished and razor-sharp prose provides the perfect vehicle for this astutely observed and often wryly humorous examination of human nature, and the choices people make within the inner passages of their own minds.