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Shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize, "Hotel World" showcases the talent of a major new novelist. Sara Wilby, a hotel chambermaid, falls to her death in the dumbwaiter yet lingers in the world as her distraught sister strives to complete an errand she doesn't completely understand.

From the critically acclaimed author of Hotel World comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he's Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regal...