With wit and tenderness, Peggy Reber has been working literary magic for decades. How wonderful that her secret is out: travel by night, her carefully crafted and wildly imaginative compendium of stories and poems, explores the persisting strangeness of everyday life. In a welcoming style, these myths and folk tales for the contemporary age deliver us into surprising gaps in the known. Read for the pleasure of vivid and quirky characters, the sensory details of place, and her contagious reverence for the mysterious. Carol Edelstein