Ireland is in a state of great flux, but in these 11 stories by the author of Night Boat to Tangier, it remains a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist. Introducing a set of distinctively Irish characters—many on the cusp between heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope—the tales here include "Deer Season," "Ox Mountain Death Song," "Toronto and the State of Grace," and "Roethke in the Bughouse."