Thematic similarities end there.
By delving into the lives of these particular characters, in this particular place, I hoped to make vivid a broad array of love's complexities. Stories from the collection have been published in Story, Ploughshares , The Threepenny Review, The North American Review, The Mid-American Review, and The Paris Review . The challenge of, and engagement with, language motivates everything I write. About three years. Short stories are often devalued as a kind of practice run for the ultimate form of the novel, but they constitute their own demanding form whose difficulties can not be underestimated.