A boy’s family travels towards the Allegheny Mountains for his entomologist father to look for an undiscovered moth he remembers seeing there in his youth. Over the course of the summertime, the boy’s sister, who suffers from autism, finds she can speak the vocabulary of various bugs and creatures of nature, enabling her to comprehend the globe around her for the very first time in her lifestyle. And as the boy himself comes old, he discovers that he talks a different sort of language aswell. As each person journeys closer to their true nature, tension is eased within the sometimes strained relationships of the unique family.

A Nebula Award Finalist, Barzak’s novella combines realism and dream to explore how exactly we each go through the globe through our very own inimitable vocabulary, creating distance actually from those closest to us.