You Can Sleep While I Drive: Stories

by Liza Wieland

Stories about parents and children. The story, Cirque du Soleil, is the reaction of a son to his widowed mother's romance with a younger man, while in Salt Lake, a daughter discovers that a man she always knew as her uncle is in fact her father.

254 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Kay Whiteley · Rating 4 out of 5]

CW: mention of abortion, death of a loved one, self harm mention, abuse, mentioned murder of a child, alcoholism

This book is really beautifully written

[Paula · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very well written collection of short stories. My only regret was that they were all so disturbingly sad. Descriptions were a bit macabre (but I like that) much in the fashion of Joyce Carol Oates. I would have rated it 4 if I had been a little less bummed when I closed the book.