The enthralling new collection of stories from Emma Donoghue. Gold miner. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghues latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. Whether in puritan Massachusetts or revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana or a Toronto highway, these strange, true stories light up four centuries of wanderings. Astray is a sequence of fourteen stories offering a past made up of deviations, a history for restless times.