"...chronicles characters profoundly affected by physical connection, or its lack. Among them, a scrappy teen vies to be the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision to remain childless; a guilt-ridden woman is haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend; a cantankerous crossing guard celebrates getting run over by a truck; an embattled priest with dementia determines to perform a heroic, redemptive act, if he can only remember how; and a young girl navigates crippling aversion to touch, even from her sisters."--
In the event of contact -- Into the west -- Everywhere she went -- Rare, but not impossible -- Unwanted -- Collisions -- At the side of the road -- Blindsided -- Before storms had names -- Blue hot -- Wilde -- F is for something -- Any wonder left -- The great blue open.