Title: Fresh Complaint: Stories
Description: This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), Poets, Fiction, Envy, Embezzlement, College freshmen, Short stories, New York Times reviewed, Crises, FICTION / Short Stories, FICTION / Literary