NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy “blends acerbic
wit shrewd insight and sharp-eyed observation [in this] bravura collection” ( The Washington
Post ) including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel Prep “Each
of these witty intelligent stories is a slice of modern life.” —People A New York Times Book
Review Editors’ Choice • A Denver Public Library Best Book Of the Year In her second story
collection Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her
novels. In these dazzling stories she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old
friends laying bare the moments when their long held beliefs are overturned. In “The Patron
Saints of Middle Age ” a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In “A for
Alone ” a married artist embarks on a creative project intended to disprove the so-called Mike
Pence Rule which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting
after each other. And in “Lost but Not Forgotten ” Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a
window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora decades later when Lee attends an
alumni reunion at her boarding school. Hilarious thought-provoking and full of tenderness
for her characters Sittenfeld’s stories peel back layer after layer of our inner lives
keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.
