
Field Study
Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman, to the family aided by an enemy in ''The Crossing'', to the old man weighing his regrets in ''Francis John Jones, 1924 -'' Seiffert''s acclaimed, r...
Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman, to the family aided by an enemy in ''The Crossing'', to the old man weighing his regrets in ''Francis John Jones, 1924 -'' Seiffert''s acclaimed, r...