What attaches you to the characters in William Cass 's moving first collection of short stories is that they are loving people, emotionally observant and internally responsive to the world around them.
Even when isolated, and many of them are, Cass's men and women know what it is to be connected.
Even when their setting is bleak-a trailer camp for seasonal workers in Kansas, a small town in Minnesota-and their circumstances constrained-by limited means, education, depression,.