“Thse gripping, magical tales span time travel, portals, menacing butterflies, and more. A can’tmiss meditation on families and survival.”—Peple“Agorgeous book that also serves as a series of unanswerable, probing questions: How did we get here? How will we move forward? Can we still love, despite the wreckage? This is devastating work, and I mean that as a compliment. Very rarely have I come across a set of stories so genuinely moving. A searing collection that attempts to place the world delicately in our fumbling, undeserving hands.”—Krsten Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With TeethA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025: Lit Hub, The MillionsWhat do we owe our family and friends in times of wild uncertainty?That’sthe question the women of Leyna Krow’sbeguiling, darkly fabulist story collection grapple with as they strive to be good mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, wives, and companions in a world that is constantly shifting around them. Set in the Pacific Northwest, these stories blend high concept magic with the sometimes subtle, other times glaring, realities of climate change.As protagonists contend with doppelgänge babies, hordes of time travelers, mysterious portals, and supernatural siblings, there lurks in the background the effects of the region’srapidly shifting environment. There are wildfires, wind storms, unrelenting heat, disrupted butterfly migration patterns, a new plague, and a catastrophe on the slopes of Mount Rainier that reverberates through three generations of a single family over the course of a half dozen linked stories.With Krow’ssignature blend of sardonic whimsy and unsettling insight, Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids imagines the rules to be broken, choices to be made, and even crimes to be had for the sake of the people, and places, we love.
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