The Janus Tree and Other Stories
* A young girl, lying in the way-back of a station wagon during an all-night family road trip, becomes convinced that the people up front are no longer her parents. * A dutiful Jewish nephew slowly comes to understand and fear his aging aunts' obsession with the exotic animals wandering loose on a nearby farm in suburban Baltimore. * A Japanese immigrant, isolated in a California mountain town while caring for her dying husband, begins seeing Tall Things in the corners of her house. Whisperers. They tell her they are coming to live in her mouth.