While not all of the fourteen stories in his new collection are a fair illustration of his ability, the balance demonstrates, once again, why he deserves a lasting place among American literary masters.
Indeed, the theme of moving on—but not necessarily past—tragedy is her central message here.
The volume has its own points of gravity that, comet-like, it revisits as it moves forward.
In 1986, at the age of twenty, without saying goodbye to anybody (and ignoring the Tao’s declaration that, “the truly kind leave no one”), Knight entered the woods of central Maine and never looked back.