Like Alice sebold, Liza potvin has turned her talents from memoir to fiction in this debut collection of 18 stories, Each story is linked by the figure of Hermes, the messenger god, whose sandals, wings, and other attributes are used as markers of change, epiphany, growth, and insight. The title story features love letters from a modern-day traveling pandora to her boyfriend back home, and Brussels, these tautly written stories capture characters at moments of translation in their lives.