O Careless Love - Susan Dodd - Bog

Weather they are on the lookout or on the lam, love is what maps their migration.An eccentric endodontist repairs a patient's freshly broken heart while performing a root canal.A Haitian woman charms snakes into keeping her company in an urban cave as she safeguards her grandchildren's sleep.A shy illustrator subsists through a long Vermont winter on occasional glimpses of a man in a blue pickup truck.Susan Dodd, the acclaimed author of The Mourners' Bench explores the multifarious and otherworldly nature of love's in this shimmering collection of short stories.In settings ranging from a desolate island in winter to a broken-down city bus at rush hour, Dodd shows us love's unlikely -- and often inconvenient -- landings 'in these ten diverse and uncommon stories.