Trace Ramsey’s All I Want to Do is Live personalizes common themes of survival, depression, and life in America at a time of division and upheaval. In this collection of short stories, essays, and poetry, Ramsey examines his family history and shows us how darkness can trickle through generations. As the personal often sheds light on the universal, Trace's memories of his childhood and the scenes from his life today also give us the story of our time, our country, and a people longing to find substance, freedom, and meaning.

Eric McCanus is a novelist struggling to write more, recently divorced, cynical toward marriage while still missing his ex-wife. Convinced that happy relationships are unsustainable, he sets out to prove his theory when he spots a seemingly perfect couple, Cara and Matt. Convinced their marriage can't be as successful as it appears, Eric does what he can to break them apart. Liars is an exploration of love, relationships, and human interaction revolving around five characters, each spun drunk on the batterings of love while attempting to sustain themselves in a false world.

Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer’s conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel—and the uncomfortable tensions this desire creates—the narrator of Salki starts recounting tragic stories of his family’s past, detailing their lives, struggles, and fears in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. In these pieces, he investigates various “salkis”—attic rooms where memories and memorabilia are stored—real and metaphorical, investigating old documents to better understand the violence of recent times.