A man with three daughters has many worries, opens the story of Rostislav Kazlov, third in line in his family's dynasty of Ganaego’s strongest men. And worries, especially about his youngest daughter Zoya, who is on her second ill-fated marriage, are what keep...

A collection of short stories by men and women who grew up in the soot and smoke—and now, ruins—of America’s great industrial complexes. The steel corporations were the engines, the dynamos, that set the mill towns going and kept them spinning for decades. You smelled...