A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies

Each of these eight stories places readers at the treacherous intersection where chaos meets order. In "The Hill Station," a young microbiologist gains a fuller understanding of death, disease, and her own life when she witnesses the ravaged lives and despairing faces of those for whom cholera is more than germs swimming under a microscope. A collection that challenges readers to place themselves in the lives of characters whose predicaments and choices lead us inexorably toward our own.