Enter a world where magic is contraband, brewed in backwoods hill cabins and smuggled down to speakeasies. Visit a place where each person's life involves a single, unpredictable miracle; travel to a farmstead where dangerous creatures awaken with the spring thaw. Meet a girl with a peculiar talent and an ageless peddler whose wagon rolls forever across the cornfields. In this collection of fantastical short stories, anything is possible with the help of a little everyday magic.
They say that the violin, of all musical instruments, sounds most nearly like the human voice. That sound sings through this septet of short stories, accompanying seven protagonists through their greatest moments of struggle and redemption. Some of these stories are slow and sad, some are swift and sweet, some end in disappointment and some in hope. The book might modulate through minor keys, but it builds at the end to a resounding major chord.