Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood Jenny the mother is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet Wade the father does the stacking The two daughters June & May aged nine & six drink lemonade swat away horseflies bicker sing snatches of songs as they while away the time But then something unimaginably shocking happens an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction