Praise for How We Disappear:

A virtuoso collection of stories that spin around an axis of loss and rediscovery, where things thought gone forever magically reappear in new guises. . . . These are middle-of-the night stories, secret messages carried on desert winds, spider-web invitations that make you want to stay and dream some more.

—Tina May Hall, author of The Snow Collectors and winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

How We Disappear traffics, beautifully, in the liminal spaces between past and present, imagination and memory. These stories are concise, unsparing, lyrical, always daring.

—Michael Parker, O. Henry Award–winning author of Prairie Fever

With sweeping intelligence and effortless command, Masih deftly explores the aching presence of the absent, and the absence of those present, in stories that read like instant classics—timely, and yet, of another time. . . . These are sensual, transporting stories that traverse the globe . . . as they burrow deep and stay within long after we finish reading.

—Sara Lippmann, author of Jerks and Doll Palace, Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award