The Era of Not Quite is chock-a-block with deaths, births, sea and land voyages, excursions to the library, philosophical asides, and things like wolves. People fall in and out of love, walk in and out of buildings, take two steps forward and two steps back. Futility is a theme of the book, but so is the necessity of trying.|Debut collection by winner of the first annual BOA Short Fiction Prize. Quirky, funny stories by a singular new voice.