The Turmoil
by Booth Tarkington | 
The Eyes of the World
by Harold Bell Wright | 
Samedi the Deafness
by Jesse Ball | 
The Half-life of Happiness
by John Casey | 
Wolf In White Van
by John Darnielle | 
The Subject Steve
by Sam Lipsyte | 
Trumpet
by Jackie Kay | 
Lost in the Forest
by Sue Miller | 
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
by Elinor Lipman | 
The Invisible Circus
by Jennifer Egan | 
An Inconvenient Woman
by Dominick Dunne | 
The Wilder Sisters
by Jo-Ann Mapson | 
Walking on Water
by Richard Paul Evans | 
The Path of Minor Planets
by Andrew Sean Greer | 
Marazan
by Nevil Shute | 
The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead |
"The emotional and moral complexity that [Jane Smiley] uncovers in the characters of these resonant novellas confirms [her] singular talent. ORDINARY LOVE & GOOD WILL is an extraordinary achievement." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ORDINARY LOVE At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father--and changed all their lives irrevocably. GOOD WILL Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences--sometimes heart-breaking ones. From the Paperback edition.