This is a collection of short fiction, stories about people who lived the majority of their lives in the latter half of the previous century . . . stories ranging in content from a rites of passage tale of a fifteen-year-old boy in post-Korean War, rural America; to the tragicomic battle between a possessive mother and her twenty-nine-year old, unmarried son; across the plague-ravaged, conspiracy-tainted landscape of 1980's HIV/AIDS; through the mystical, life-changing relationship between a man and a stray cat; and on to a final account of a troubled, secrecy-ridden family in the wake of World War II.