The arrival of Lucette becomes a catalyst for a change in Harry's relationship with his cousin Cynthia and in Cynthia's aimless lifestyle, in the story of the drifting, disconnected inhabitants of a Cleveland neighborhood. A first novel. 10,000 first...
Fourteen stories, many of which appeared in the New Yorker. In "Buying a Pumpkin," a father struggles with three children after his wife leaves him, in "Research, " college girls draw up a list of boys with whom to lose their virginity....