A collection of short stories
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A love triangle plays out over decades on a montana dude ranch.
a hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the olympic village.
mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in paris, connecting disparate destinies.
on the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover.
a couple’s Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry, and, in the title story, a former child actress breaks with her life in a hollywood cult.
“An intrepid chronicler of sundry experiences”
—The New York Times
“Even when we think we know it all, there are still more secrets to reveal . . . masterful”
-The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“It’s a rare writer who can create a world as convincingly over a few pages as in a 600-page novel”
—The Observer
“Tender but unflinching”
—FT
“Daring, wide-ranging . . . both formally inventive and emotionally complex, this pays off with dividends”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Essential for fiction lovers”
—Library Journal, starred review
