Wives & Lovers

<p><strong>A first-rate collection of novellas that will break your heart and fill you with hope at the same time. <em>--Denver Rocky Mountain News</em></strong></p><p><strong>In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes <em>Wives and Lovers</em> from the author the <em>Boston Globe</em> calls One of the most expert and substantial of our writers.</strong></p><p><em>Requisite Kindness</em>--published here for the first time--tells the story of a man who must comes to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. <em>Rare and Endangered Species</em> demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lives and affects the lives of people who don't even know her. Finally <em>Spirits</em> is about the pain that men and women can--and do--inflict upon each other. Three very different stories that illuminate the unadorned core of love--not the showy more celebrated sort but what remains when the more ephemeral emotions such as lust jealousy and passion have been stripped away.</p>