Fourteen stories, many of which appeared in the New Yorker. In "Buying a Pumpkin," a father struggles with three children after his wife leaves him, in "Research, " college girls draw up a list of boys with whom to lose their virginity.
Mary Grimm was probably my top choice of writing teachers I would have liked to work with, but I chose another program. This is a wonderful collection of stories about normal people leading normal lives, and it's thrilling.