A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A couple’s Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry, and, in the mesmerizing title story, a former child actress breaks with her life in a Hollywood cult. In these and other stories, knockout after knockout, Maggie Shipstead delivers another “extraordinary” ( ) work of fiction and seals her reputation as a writer of “breathtaking range and skill” ( ). Rich in imagination and dazzling in its shapeshifting style, excavates the complexities of love, sex, and life in ways unsparing and hilarious, sharp-eyed and tender.