The Dark and Other Love Stories

✍ Scribed by Willis, Deborah

• Book ID: 109906232
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 254 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"The emotional range and depth of [Willis's stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing."--Alice Munro

The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer's girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenaged girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humor, these subtle, complex stories--about the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reporter--show how love ties us to each other and to the world. The Dark and Other Love Stories announces the emergence of a wonderfully gifted storyteller whose stories...