Close Call

<p>A door-to-door salesman's visit shows Carol a new side of her mother and threatens the security they both had taken for granted; a woman finds out what happens when we're too busy to die; a woman in her fifties celebrates her newly augmented body parts; four friends try to breech a chasm in their friendship by planning a reunion; and a researcher examines his relationship to creativity in a world where it has been deemed a mental illness. Carefully crafted surprising and humane the stories in Kim Suhr's <em>Close Call </em>unveil emotion in tight spaces hearts in turmoil and the searching soul of the Midwest.</p>