Acquainted with the Night and Other Stories

226 pp. "The author presents her first collection of short stories, which reveal astute observations of middle-class life and targets the compromises that propriety and prudence demand of the heart." Includes: The Age of Analysis; The Middle Classes; Sound Is Second Sight; Mrs. Saunders Writes to the World; The Wrath-Bearing Tree; Plaisir d'Amour; Over the Hill; The Accounting; Life Is an Adventure, with Risks; The Death of Harriet Gross; Grand Staircases; The Sunfish and the Mermaid; The Opiate of the People; Epistemology, Sex, and the Shedding of Light; The Man at the Gate; Acquainted with the Night.