Tales of the New World

“Brilliant [and] masterly explorations of bitter, terrifying truths” populate this New York Times Editor’s Choice short story collection ( The Boston Globe ).   In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkner-winning  The Caprices , Sabina Murray confronts some stark truths about the most intrepid—and brutal—pioneers of the last four millennia.   These legendary explorers and settlers are made intimately human as they charge headlong past the boundaries of their worlds t