Small Things

"Two houses, each perched on a mountain top, stare at each other across a deep valley. A man and a woman talk about the small things--parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, the memory of a mother's breasts, brown sauce and soggy chips. But these minutiae disguise a bigger story of brutality and unfaltering loyalty which emerges horrifically through the chit chat"--Page 4 of cover.