The Good Life: Stories

A collection of short stories that are "at once laugh-out-loud funny and utterly serious" (Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl).

"McGraw ably leavens heartbreak with humor . . . she renders quirky, refreshingly real characters—a mediocre ballet dancer who takes in a more successful dancer's daughter; an insecure self-help author who's thrown for a loop by a visit to her parents; a disillusioned bed-and-breakfast owner who flirts with moving to Aruba; Catholic priests who have trou...