The car is idling on the road between where we’ve been and where we’re going. The door’s open. You coming? This debut collection of short stories will get under your skin and take you for a ride alongside people wrestling with issues of life and death, identity and race, change and resistance to change. These characters behave bravely and awkwardly and unsavory in an attempt to be who they want to be—or can’t help but being. Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion unflinchingly peers into the places we turn away from, and shows us it’s not always as neat or as clean as we’d like to imagine. Sometimes it’s messy as hell.