Collection of Walter Mosley short stories that feels like it could be the author imagining many different lives he could have lived if he had been an insurance agent, or a hobo, or an orphan, or a retired professor having a heart attack, or the ghost of Kilgore Trout. Most of these stories are about the main characters finding themselves & coming of age, either early or late in life; in a few of the stories, the main characters decide to be someone else entirely. Mosley’s work makes me think he would either be the worst or the best person on Earth to get dating advice from.