![]() ![]() Over several months, Thomas Grey writes increasingly urgent letters to Duane Moser, the man whose name is printed on the bottles of prescription pills Grey found in "the debris left over from an auto accident," which also included a "sealed Ziploc bag of letters signed M" and photos of a '66 Chevy Chevelle. Watkins also handles a variety of structures with a deft touch, including an epistolary story, the haunting "The Last Thing We Need," which appeared in Best of the West 2011. She writes many of the stories in the first-person perspectives of a wide range of narrators, from women in their 20s, like the author, to middle-aged contemporary men (“The Last Thing We Need”), to a teenage boy in 1849 turned pioneer and gold prospector in “The Diggings,” one of the most moving and engrossing stories in the collection. ![]() Watkins writes in a poised, confident voice - or voices, rather. ![]()
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