"Like a lattice of jewels, each reflecting some quality of all the others, these twenty-eight stories are riveting, dream-like, at times hallucinatory; each an utterly distinct psychosphere, yet all held together by a luminous through-line, the Three Marks of Existence. — Frank LaRue Owen (Inzan), author of The School of Soft-Attention and The Temple of Warm Harmony Passarelli is a master painter of scenes." — Frank LaRue Owen (Inzan), author of The School of Soft-Attention and The Temple of Warm Harmony

"Widely international, Passarelli's stories roam from Guatemala to Greece, Myanmar to Mexico, yielding a vibrant cast of narco-bosses, Mormon mothers, kidnapped children, and Zen meditators, among others. Bones guide, tower blocks burn, women morph, bitter lepidopterists speak, and drifters return to their ancestral homes. Love flourishes and goes out, but in each story we are held by the original and humane voice of a vital new author." — Andy Brown, author of The Midnight Mechanic and Grace Notes

"Passarelli's stories weave their way through the intimate details of diverse individual lives towards the essence of what it means to be human." — Sam Meekings, author of Under Fishbone Clouds and The Book of Crows