"Cat Holm creates characters who can find hope even on the darkest of nights. A deaf woman yearns to sing, a widower seeks to find the spirit of his wife in the caprices of a young boy, in a car wash, at Walmart, anywhere. How strong the desire to protect the eggshell placed around the heart, as Holm so aptly observes. From her stories about a mother's death, a writers' retreat, and homeless children confronted in a city park, readers will discover stories so great and big––just as the first story of this collection is so eponymously named."

—Kate St.Vincent Vogl, author of Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers