
Ten stories of women and men misjudging one another: a book club, a celebrity, an old school rival, a couple playing a secret game about the people they meet.
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Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.

At the University of Arkansas in 2017, Millie Cousins, a senior and resident assistant saving to buy a house, accepts an offer from Agatha Paul, a visiting professor writing about young people and money, and lets her interview the girls in her dorm.

Jane, a mixed-race novelist in Los Angeles, has spent ten years on a serious book about mixed-race America, and broke and house-sitting for a famous friend, she decides to try selling a television show instead.

Carol Milford, a young, idealistic librarian from St Paul, marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to bring culture and reform to its one dusty Main Street.

Twelve stories about lonely, funny people pushed to the edge, including a mother whose baby is diagnosed with cancer and a woman grieving her cat while her marriage frays.

When her husband leaves her, Ria Lynch, who has always lived for her family and her house on Tara Road in Dublin, agrees to swap homes for the summer with Marilyn Vine, an American stranger mourning her son in Connecticut.

Ten stories that veer between absurd comedy and great tenderness, from a boy's rescue attempt on a frozen pond to a medieval theme park and a family that buys living women as lawn ornaments, all about trying to be decent in broken systems.

Andy, Dag and Claire, three twentysomethings who have walked out of their careers, work dead-end jobs in Palm Springs and tell each other stories to make sense of a world that seems to have no place for them.

Moore's first book, mostly stories told as second-person how-to guides, on how to be an other woman, how to become a writer and how to talk to your mother.

Nine stories set in an America where inequality and surveillance have hardened into something almost feudal, and small acts of conscience become radical.

Linked stories of Rose, from a poor childhood in Hanratty, Ontario, with her stepmother Flo, to marriage to a rich young man and a career on television.

A contented English squire devoted to his Gothic country house loses his wife to an idle young social climber, and his life comes apart all the way to the Amazon.