Give Me Your Heart

“Haunting . . . Written in the author’s classic clear style these narratives enchant.”—Boston GlobeThe need for love—obsessive self-destructive unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In ten razor-sharp stories children veer beyond their parents’ control wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand.“Dread in fiction can be a magnificent thing . . . Oates isn’t writing horror fiction but she might as well be. Her stories pack the same kind of visceral wallop.”—Los Angeles Times