All Things Are Labor: Stories

The enigmatic stories in this haunting collection deal with individuals striving to live outside the dominant American culture—people who do not want to be incorporated, appropriated, or consumed. Their battles are waged on interior and external landscapes, pitting clarity against confusion, faith against fear, the marginalized against the powerful, the passive against the aggressive.

In one story, a Mennonite mother leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her three children into an aban...