Thought-provoking and poignant, "Don't Sleep Under the Midnight Sun" explores the universal human longing for connection—whether as a stranger in a foreign country, within one's marriage, or among family who you know the most and the least—with rare and eloquent insight. Everyone's an outsider in their own lives, as the characters in Darshani Panchia's richly drawn collection of short stories illustrates. The feeling of isolation spares no one—from a disenfranchised Norwegian foreign officer haunted by memories in a politically unstable African country to a lonely woman watching her neighbor's house in the aftermath of tragedy, longing to reach out but unsure how.