A novella and ten other stories, by the author of Sister Patsy, Luggas Wood and The Yellow Room.A mining camp in Arizona, Paris in the 70s, Heidelberg in the 60s, occupied Norway, a college town in Missouri, a French resort in the Caribbean and, weaving in and out, the world of Norwegian immigrant chapel-folk in Brooklyn, these tales of vanished worlds and uncanny encounters share themes of love found and lost, of regret and memory, of past images haunting present lives.