附註:1997 Katharine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize.
Unsubjected -- Jump start -- Speaking in tongues -- A thief in the night -- Baby -- The slow and painful demise of the American family -- Tell me everything -- La Facultad -- Echo guilt -- Fallow -- Fitness tests -- What Alma knows -- Stories about Miranda -- Slipstream.
摘要:Fourteen stories, many with social themes. The story, What Alma Knows, is on the loneliness of old age, Fallow is on marriage, while Jump Start is on abortion.