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Excerpt from Nature Stories for Little Folk: The Crooked Oak Tree, the Life of a Dragon Fly Every Spring the sunbeams stroked the brown buds with their soft, warm fingers, till the little green leaves peeped out, and smiled to see the dancing shadows play hide and seek with the ¿ickering sunshine, slowly the leaves grew each year, drinking in the air and sunshine, till in the Autumn they changed to red and yellow, and covered the branches wit...

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This linked short-story collection follows the life of Glory B., who moves to Minnesota to recover from drug addiction and learns she has contracted HIV. Carter's streetwise debut includes work featured in "The New Yorker" and "Best American Short Stories 1997".

Carter's stories link and overlap to form a book-length narrative about the trials and tribulations of Glory, now in her thirties and HIV-positive. Once the adored little girl of professionals, she became a rowdy drunk, and then an opiate abuser living in a down-and-out Minneapolis neighborhood.