"In these 35 stories, one struggles to find a sentence that is anything less than jewel-box perfect." -- The New York Times Book Review Gina Berriault is known for the complexity and compassion with which she weaves her characters, and her stories are such models of economy that...
This remarkable collection received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.
What causes us to act, what lies at the root of our behavior, and what sustains or changes us? Berriault contributes her extraordinary shifting sensibility to consider these questions and the inevitability of suffering and the nature of individuality.
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