O Careless Love

<em><p>Weather they are on the lookout or on the lam love is what maps their migration.</p><p>An eccentric endodontist repairs a patient's freshly broken heart while performing a root canal.</p><p>A Haitian woman charms snakes into keeping her company in an urban cave as she safeguards her grandchildren's sleep.</p><p>A shy illustrator subsists through a long Vermont winter on occasional glimpses of a man in a blue pickup truck.</p></em><p>Susan Dodd the acclaimed author of <em>The Mourners' Bench</em> explores the multifarious and otherworldly nature of love's in this shimmering collection of short stories.</p><p>In settings ranging from a desolate island in winter to a broken-down city bus at rush hour Dodd shows us love's unlikely -- and often inconvenient -- landings 'in these ten diverse and uncommon stories.</p>