A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author ofShrines of GaietyandLife After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels — the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may — or may not — have spoken to him.A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all.