That Tiny Life

In this wide-ranging and utterly original collection, award-winning author Erin Frances Fisher examines the idea of progress--humanity's never-ending cycle of creation and destruction. In "Valley Floor", a surgeon performs an amputation in the open desert inthe old American West. In "Da Capo al Fine," the creator of the fortepiano desings another, more brutal instrument. And in "That Tiny Life," the reader gets a glimpse into a future in which human resource extraction goes far beyond Earth. Each story brings into bright relief our need for connection, an innate violence in nature, and the god-complex present in all acts of human creation--back cover.