"A modern picaresque set in the American Northwest; a fractured narrative in which theme and action are the only constants; a tragicomic tale of tender self-loathing; a perpetual novelty." --- "Volume Void" is an experimental collection of narrative fragments loosely based on the complex structure of a young child's artistically ambitious (but tragically unfocused) mind, as it evolves from childhood into young adulthood. Though designated as a "Short Story Collection" the truth is somewhat more complicated; but it's the most useful description Lulu offers.