This brief book of 13 stories in 180 pages carries a weight and power far out of proportion with its physical scale, and unusually for a short story collection, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in 2021, beating off a short list of novels. It immediately reprinted a number of times, and has been a significant seller, a triumph for a previously undiscovered book. It's by turns eccentric and surreal, discomforting, disturbing, moving and always superbly, economically written. Airini Beautrais has previously published 4 poetry collections, and writes prose with a poets eye. It's a superb, essential collection .