Eight doctors struggle to save a dying baby—until a ragged boy points to the child’s neck and says something no one dares believe

and worked again in February for reasons that neither of them had ever identified. He thought about the train tracks that were audible from the bedroom window at night, which he had always found, despite everything, oddly companionable — the sound of things moving through the dark toward somewhere.

He thought about Kowalska Street and the woman who continue reading …