Driving the Heart: And Other Stories

A stunningly elegant and highly original debut collection of stories at once dark and poignant, funny and bleak. The story "Thief" begins: "When my mother removed her shirt in front of third-period honors English, I was in the classroom next door taking a test." Her reason —her students were reading The Awakening and she had stopped taking her medication. The battle against self-destruction, the struggle to transform loss into meaning, and the difficulty of connecting with others, especiall...