num_pages: 240
description: By the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Writers &amp; Lovers Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short storiesTold in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages these tales explore desire and heartache loss and discovery moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit a girl's loss of innocence at the hands of her employer's son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic hopeful brutally raw and unsparingly honest some even slipping into the surreal these stories are above all about King's enduring subject of love.
language: English
title: Five Tuesdays in Winter
publisher: Grove Press