“One Girl./ One spark,” writes Beaty (the Questioneers series), as Phumiruk’s (Counting on Katherine) softly Beaty and Harrison pay tribute to unconditional love through seasons ...

Sometimes when I wake up, I look out of the window, decide I can’t face it, and call in sick. Other days, I go to work in the same top I wore to bed the night before. I don’t know why.