A daughter mutilates her new doll. A woman and her cousin wait for the apocalypse in an underground safehouse. A group of young girlsÑall quite nearly humanÑdevelop a strange connection to a redberry bush. Overgrowth is a collection of five short stories that follow the anxieties, habits, and values that women teach one another, especially in the formative years of their lives. What lessons are taught by mothers, idols, and childhood friends? And is there truly any way to keep our fears, even the ones we try our hardest to conceal, from passing on?