When a middle-aged woman’s daughter mysteriously reappears after going missing for three years, she notices something about her child isn’t quite the same.

When his co-worker dies suddenly from a rare bacterial disease, a sewage treatment plant inspector confronts great grief, regret, and sin—and ends up engaging in a sexual relationship with the deceased's vulnerable teenage daughter.

An accomplished but ineffectual columnist searches for fulfillment, until a death in the family causes him to question the family he took for granted.

On a fatally cold winter night, two brothers make the trek to their parents' barn where they guard the expensive machinery.

Three women from a small town, each with their respective ideas about grief and loss, meet for breakfast on a train.

After the loss of his wife and daughter, a railroad laborer adjusts to life alone in the changing American West.