Inventing the Abbotts

<p><strong>Compelling. . . . What Miller offers. . . is a distinctive sensibility--a candid exploration of the frail and gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal.--<em>Boston Globe</em></strong><br/></p><p><strong>In this riveting collection of short stories bestselling author Sue Miller writes compellingly about a chapter in the moral history of our time.</strong></p><p>The fascinating stories featured in <em>Inventing the Abbotts</em> explore the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships. </p><p>In the title story a young man takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. Others concern a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity and a stricken dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor. In one story after another Sue Miller presents a remarkable gallery of characters offering insight into contemporary men and women with their hungry hearts and dismayed consciences.</p> <p>With keen sensitivity and penetrating insight <em>Inventing the Abbotts</em> will strike a chord with readers everywhere.</p>