Lee Kvern's much-anticipated new collection contains stories which revolve around humanity in all its flawed glory: an artist's girlfriend dies by mistake, a mother holds surveillance on her son's foray into drugs, a sibling's jealousy toward her sickly brother, a father's death, a mother's fear for her unbridled, grade-two son, a woman with a hijab in the mordern world of Save-on groceries. An arborist, his wife and a Shar-Pei are in need of an attitude adjustment, a dying senior looks back over her life, her children, her lost love, RCMP and prostitutes come for tea on a Wednesday afternoon.