American Still LifeTrapped in a web of her own creation, Skade Felsdottir, a gifted but deeply troubled photojournalist, returns to a place she swore never to go back to: the town where she grew upa town that forever hosts her darkest traumas and secretsto try and finish a book project. She reconnects, against her better judgment, with an old boyfriend, and meets a deeply traumatized and broken young woman, Kitten "Kit" Dyer: toweringly tall, awkward, achingly lonely,