Objects of Desire

Fresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life • “A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment Weekly

A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son’s wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-los...