
With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in that which is most familiar. "Graceful and effortless, yet as controlled and purposeful as a nest-building bird."...

Ann Packer's first collection of deft, quietly illuminating short stories focuses on men and women in their 20s and 30s whose lives, for all their ritual calm, don't quite fall into place. In the title story, three-way tensions reverberate during the weekend visit by and L.A...
