A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (
Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection
Who Do You Love with
Throw Like a Girl.
Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters -- lovers, wives, friends, and mothers -- speaks her piece -- wry, angry, hopeful -- about the world and women's places in it.