Abby Geni Books in Order

People struggling with grief, love and family find unexpected mirrors in the natural world. An aquarium worker, an ostrich-farming couple and other unsettled lives reveal how caring for animals can expose wounds that human relationships leave unresolved.

Photographer Miranda joins a small group of scientists on California's remote Farallon Islands for a yearlong residency. An assault and a suspicious death turn the harsh natural sanctuary into a place where every companion becomes difficult to trust.

Three years after a tornado destroys the McCloud family's home, their missing brother Tucker returns injured and draws young Cora into his animal-rights campaign. As his actions become increasingly violent, their sister Darlene struggles to find them.

Eleven stories examine what bodies remember through illness, grief, desire and change. An entomologist studies death, a caregiver faces Alzheimer’s and other lives reveal the intimate connection between physical experience, private history and the world outside.

Beekeeper Liv has built a quiet life after a childhood ruled by her father’s violent Viking beliefs. When men begin disappearing near her Michigan town, the pattern threatens to reconnect her carefully buried past with the present.