Sympathetic People
"Donna Baier Stein is a discovery. Her deceptively mild story-telling veers swiftly into the savage but often unacknowledged discontent of suburban life - wives struggling with marital disappointment and missed opportunities, celebrating and often betrayed by unexpected friendships - all explored with language that engages and surprises."-C. Michael Curtis, Fiction Editor,The Atlantic"Ms. Baier Stein's stories are powerful in both language and character . . . she balances a fierce wish to love and be loved with the hard reality of loss and failure, yet the yearning does not diminish. A profound accomplishment."- Elizabeth Cox, author ofThe Slow Moon, The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love"DonnaBaierStein uncovers the sometimes heady glint of danger in relationships in a brilliantly edgy collection of stories that gets under your skin as even as it illuminates love, lust - and everything in between."--Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling authorof Pictures of YouandIs This Tomorrow"Donna Baier Stein writes with the grace and precision of apoet . . .hereis a writer who trusts not only herself, but herreaders, who willbe skillfully guided into coming to their own satisfying conclusions."--Elizabeth Berg, New York Times bestselling author, most recentlyofTapestryof Fortunes"Stein crafts much more than a short story. She crafts memories. No doubt, readers will find one or two stories that they can really relate to or may even be walking that same road currently. The mark of great fiction is to have readers forget that it is fiction. Our author seems quite gifted at that."-Devoted Mommy of Three blog