Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother

In this highly anticipated follow-up to 2012's "A Bottle of Storm Clouds," award-winning author Eliza Victoria returns with 17 stories of displacement, disillusionment, desperation, and loneliness.

In "Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother," characters seek solace - wittingly or unwittingly - in forces beyond human comprehension. A young woman agrees to make a blood sacrifice in exchange for an American visa. Strangers find themselves stuck in a fatal time loop in a convenience store. A...