Follies: New Stories

From four time O. Henry Award–winning author Ann Beattie, a compellingly tender, acute, and revelatory collection of stories.

Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie is a masterful observer of domestic relations and the idiosyncratic logic that governs human lives.

In Follies, her most resonant collection, she looks at baby boomers in their maturity, sorting out t...