Last November

A long-lost brother comes home and converses with his forlorn sister. Time stops when two cousins climb their childhood treehouse. A space station explodes and a survivor searches for his lover amid the debris. A child prodigy gets lost on an Oregon beach in search of existential answers. Peter Biles's second short story collection Last November is a cacophony of voices young and old searching for validation in a world shorn of its relational fabric. The final two stories intended to be read together offer a subtle but confident affirmation of life and our place in the cosmos. Biles a member of Gen Z continues to mine for meaning in a distracted and anxious age.