In Fowles, a town where people fall from the sky almost once a year, the narrator joins a rescue team that bats the falling people back with baseball bats. Through the town's matter-of-fact acceptance of the impossible, the story unfolds where absurdity and humor intersect.

In a town where people fall from the sky, the everyday work of a bat-wielding rescue team begins.

The narrator travels between a matrilineal village where time is twisted and a university town. In the village, age, numbers, and even personal names remain uncertain; encounters in the town, where language is trusted, lead her to trace the boundaries between self and world.

A fantastical story of a narrator moving between a village where neither time nor language has a fixed outline and a university town.