People whose perceptions of the world have been changed by disease, tragedy, or senility hunt down pieces of truth in these nine stories in Wieland's second collection. In one story, an AIDS-stricken man seeks out the father who abandoned him as a child, while in another three old men with ailing children bond in an emergency room. Many of these stories are set in the American West. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.