Delacroix is an old story teller. "Astonishing Women: Stories and Tidbits" is his fourth book of stories, counting a volume in French and another written under a pen name. In "Astonishing Women...." Delacroix collects stories about women that left a lasting impression on him. His mother and his wife are in it, of course, but so are women he barely knew, and others whose names he never learned. All the women in the stories had an effect on...