Ruins Relics Author:Alice Zorn These are short stories about people who harbor relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy's chest, a stolen USB pen, blue concentration camp numbers tattooed on a forearm, a man's sense of his own body as his HIV overtakes him. Alice Zorn's remarkable debut collection displays these talismans of personal... more » history and transforms them into extraordinary stories about relationships between partners, family, friends, and strangers.« less