Selected stories from a renowned poet and prose writer "who savors the elegance of simplicity and whose stories resonate and linger" ("The New York Times Book Review") Tess Gallagher's vivid and rewarding short stories bear witness to the intimate details and subtle revelations of daily life. Set mostly in Gallagher's native Pacific Northwest and drawn from her two widely acclaimed collections, "The Lover of Horses" and" At the Owl Woman Saloon," these stories contain the lives of loggers, bartenders, bear wrestlers, gamblers, Avon ladies, horse whisperers, Tess Gallagher is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. She is the author of "Dear Ghosts," and of "Barnacle Soup: Stories from the West of Ireland" with Josie Gray. She lives in Port Angeles, Washington. In these luminous stories drawn from her acclaimed collections "The Lovers of Horses" and "At the Owl Woman Saloon," Tess Gallagher connects the passion of her prizewinning poetry with the prose of working-class Americans struggling to survive. As in the fiction of her late husband and literary partner Raymond Carver, the result is a transformation of the ordinary into to the unforgettable. The characters in "The Man from Kinvara" are recognizable as our neighbors--their choices as mysterious as our own.