In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories

A collection from the Story Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award winner and author of This Boy's Life, "a writer of the highest order" (Los Angeles Times).

Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life; a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience; a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride; and an elderly cou...