Azimuths, by R.A. Morean makes readers feel as if

makes readers feel as if someone is just pulling up a barstool and saying over a tall cold one

steals scraps of yarn from the art room to make dreamcatchers

But his behavior seems erratic

and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School

For the human condition—as revealed in these short yet shapely fictions—is dislocated

Azimuths, by R.A. Morean makes readers feel as ifWhat sifts beneath the sand are mysteries a fossilized whale, a particle accelerator, and calculated dreams of escape. Above live five unique women: Hattie, who tries to find her dead mother's face within her own; Kinni, the veiled survivor of Nagasaki; Melody, the orphan who nurses wayward children; Lani, who uses a camera to create distances; and Oxena, who can't decide if she loves or hates her husband of forty years. As the men struggle with the