Collection of 7 short stories

In "Blood Drive", we meet Inez Graney, a woman who uses a wheelchair, and her two older sons who embark on a bizarre road trip to visit her youngest son Raymond on death row.

"Fetching Raymond" centers on the McBride family - a mother and her three sons with criminal records, as they visit Raymond in prison.

"Fish Files" introduces a struggling divorce lawyer who gets caught up in a shady scheme after answering a fateful phone call.

In "Michael's Room", a young boy named Michael dying of leukemia, forms a bond with his paralyzed roommate Carl Lee in the hospital.

"Funny Boy" tells the story of Adrian Keane, a gay man who is dying of AIDS in the 1980s, who returns to his hometown and is taken in by Miss Emporia, an elderly Black woman, facing prejudice and ignorance from the community.