Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power of their language.įrom the opening story, "Willing"-about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being- Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" ( The New York Times Book Review).Ī volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help.
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