Product Overview
Ordinary rooms, modest ambitions, and the pressure of other people’s expectations become the proving grounds in this varied collection of short fiction. A shop clerk discovers that public admiration can be as burdensome as obscurity; a young woman’s carefully controlled world is unsettled by desire and family authority; marriages, friendships, and social rituals expose the private calculations beneath respectable appearances.
Moving from small-town streets to city apartments, these stories balance sharp comedy with close attention to loneliness, pride, compromise, and the hunger to be seen clearly. Their men and women pursue romance, status, security, artistic dreams, and simple peace, only to find that each wish carries an unexpected cost. Witty, observant, and often quietly unsettling, the collection catches characters at the instant when an ordinary choice begins to reveal a life.
Included are:
- A RELUCTANT HERO
- THE FLAW
- MEN OF THEIR RACE
- HIS SACRED FAMILY
- COMMON SENSE
- THE PLAYBOY
- BLIGHT
- THE IDEALISTS
- EMPTINESS
- THE RETURN
- THE PREPARATION
- BLUE FOR YOUR EYES AND BROWN FOR YOUR HAIR
- LESS THAN A BIRD
- MARRIAGE INSIDE OUT
- OVERSTUFFED
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