
The story Thief begins: When my mother removed her shirt in front of third-period honors English, I was in the classroom next door taking a test. Her reason --her students were reading The Awakening and she had stopped taking her medication. The battle against self-destruction,...

A debut collection of short fiction by an author whose work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and other collections and periodicals features such works as Thief, Dog Lover, Sadness of the Body, and the title story, about a man who transports organs for transplants.
