Matters Familiar

Matters Familiar is an anthology of short stories, offering 12 tales from inside complex contemporary relationships featuring parents; kids; convicts; hustlers; lawyers; politicians; and other undesirables:

· A small girl, suffocating in the growing culture of fear around her, struggles to take the high ground.

· A recently-divorced father sharing custody of his young son learns about parenting in an unlikely place--Death Row.

· Adrift in his own life and desperate for a belief system, a young...