by Kelsey Socha

“A beautifully shaped, poetic book…. [Socha] is bold, unpredictable, and a writer to watch.”

—Isaac Fellman, author of Lambda Literary Award-winning novel The Breath of the Sun

Two stoic lobstermen harboring a secret affection. A lonely architect building houses and machines from the exoskeletons of scorpions in a desert town. A girl painfully growing into new wings. A flock of crows and an untidy vulture observe and collect these moments of human tenderness as they build an archive of brightness. Each love story becomes, in its own way, the end of a world—and the beginning of a new one.