We Live in Water is a darkly comic, moving collection of short stories that veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing.In and "Thief, and " an aluminum worker turns unlikely detective to solve the mystery of which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In and "We Live in Water, and " a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In and "Anything Helps, and " a homeless man has to and "go to cardboard and " to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In and "Virgo, and " a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. Also included are the stories and "Don't Eat Cat and " and and "Statistical Abstract of My Hometown, Spokane, Washington, and " both of which achieved a cult following after publication online.