Tawny Grammer on The Moss Gatherers

A set of impressions on my book of stories, The Moss Gatherers, at Tawny Grammer: Like ghosts, these characters and their homes exist in the present while defining themselves through the past, their promise and possibility behind them even as they live on. Like them, the American West is a region first defined by an idyllic future envisioned in a decades-old past, which might make the presence of ghosts — literal or figurative — both the most potent of fears and an inevitable consequence of living in the past and the present at once.