Tin House

Mystery Lights

Lena Valencia

Ten stories, most of them set in the desert Southwest, most of them about women in situations that tilt just past ordinary. A wellness retreat that goes wrong. Influencers in a canyon. A boarding school. A woman on the road…

Night Flowers

Sara Herchenroether

In 1983, hikers in the Gila National Forest find a woman and two children in barrels. Thirty years later nobody has a name for any of them. Laura MacDonald, a librarian and genealogist in Connecticut going through breast cancer treatment,…