A collection of 14 stories, animated by ferocious river prawns, trees that weep and a 'town with beaches of white gunpowder which thundered at dusk when the tide began to rush in.' It conveys a world in which stories hide within stories, the personal is always political, mystery is as common and sudden as tenderness and endings are violent.

Rosario Ferre's works include "Sweet Diamond Dust" and "The House on the Lagoon."