“…the land of the dead does not frighten Ana now that she has learned all its rules. Small gods with stars for faces sometimes try to make good on their reputations as tricksters, but they come away disappointed by her invulnerability to cuts and bruises.” “Thin Places,” tells eleven stories of strangeness on the periphery. Four women in a four gabled house are doomed to make children out of milk and lye, children who will not live long. A community must sing and kill their men in order to bring the rain. A group of girls fights the demons who took their mothers. Each story as surreal and creepy as the last. Read it in a day and think of it for days afterward.