With six short stories and one novella, this book covers an emotional ride through the racial discourse of modern society at the intersection of grief and gender. The premises are all brilliant and the prose is fluid. Whether it is a young woman testing the boundaries of what she can get away with or a bride keeping her soon-to-be husband’s friend close as she tries to discern the true nature of their relationship or a historian trying to uncover the truth about a racist tragedy from the past, Evans has the range.