These are stories that challenge and delight, unsettle and surprise. With a finely tuned and insatiable ear for language and an inherent sense of risk, Thomas examines themes of love and connectedness between fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, lovers, friends and strangers. Explorers all, be it on foreign soil or under their own roofs, they attempt to navigate the complex undercurrents of their world, all the while seeking to understand and to be understood.