
All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life, yet part of the larger life that a neighborhood is; [this book] is an artist's inhabiting of other lives out of love, compassion, anger, and pain. Like the neighborhood,...

A collection of stories--several of which were O. Henry Award-winners--which allrown's point of view is never merely spectatorial; . . . one has a powerful sense of receiving knowledge about the complex substance of her characters' everyday experience--as they themselves perceive...


