A beautiful collection of short stories by the new American writer who is being compared to Raymond Carver and Chekhov. Mostly about loss, delusion, loneliness and the American way, what makes these stand out is how utterly different they all are to each other- yet the writer's voice, brilliantly original, shines through with clarity. This is someone who understand suffering from the inside out, and can write about it in a way that warms us. Stunning.

Anna - I've just read this book and it's absolutely amazing, I entirely agree with you. I would recommend it to everyone, and it's good to see the art of the short story is by no means over! I think "The beginnings of grief" was my favourite - all that dark sorrow and trapped eroticism, amazing ...

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You've refreshed my memory, and I am even going to re read it even though I only read it a few months ago! really is damn good..