Azimuths, by R.A. Morean Samantha’s happiness doesn’t last forever

Samantha’s happiness doesn’t last forever

the quiet terror that hides in the center of the rings

makes readers feel as if someone is just pulling up a barstool and saying over a tall cold one

and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School

and female companionship she craves

Azimuths, by R.A. Morean Samantha’s happiness doesn’t last foreverWhat sifts beneath the sand are mysteries a fossilized whale, a particle accelerator, and calculated dreams of escape. Above live five unique women: Hattie, who tries to find her dead mother's face within her own; Kinni, the veiled survivor of Nagasaki; Melody, the orphan who nurses wayward children; Lani, who uses a camera to create distances; and Oxena, who can't decide if she loves or hates her husband of forty years. As the men struggle with the