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     In Being Here & Other Stories, lives unfold at the fragile edges of longing, loneliness, love, and loss. A man returns from years of captivity to a world that has gone on without him. A boy discovers, in the absence of his father, what it might mean to become one himself. A lonely retiree peers too closely into the lives of his neighbors. A troubled teenager finds kindness where he least expects it. A young man mistakes obsession for love. A daughter confronts the father who abandoned her decades before.

     Elsewhere, bears take flight, craniopagus twins face an impossible trial, a bodyguard discovers an unexpected kinship with the young man he protects, and a chance encounter on a cold Christmas bus opens the door to a lost love.

     Tender, dark, comic, and sometimes strange, these fifteen stories explore the ways we reach for one another—and the moments when, despite everything, we find ourselves simply being here.