Not Where I Started FromKate Wheeler's stories feature peripatetic Americans who seek love or enlightenment or both in far flung corners of the globe. A startling mixture of gentle irony, mischievous humor, and unexpected danger marks the paths of all these characters as they follow their circuitous routes toward happiness. As the New York Times said, \"Wheeler has a capacity for compressing the insights of cross cultural dislocation into deliciously memorable epiphanies.\"

Jorge Domínguez

King Henry VIII listens to Cardinal Wolsey too much and gives

It's part memoir

when he walked into the desert outside Bishop

Sadie’s journey is a powerful and honest look at finding the courage to face the past and choose a future

A new pair of shoes

Reluctant Allies: After a daring rescue mission leaves their friend Sam captured

A Perilous Underwater Cave: Their mission takes them to the Gorgonian Grotto

and her daughters are drifting away as fast as they’re growing up

PRAISE FOR FLESH WOUNDS

where every department—from Transportation to Agriculture—gets a much-needed

along with his ashes and a poem that may be a riddle