9780786225644, titled "Polly's Ghost" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2000), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: "I only wish I ever had the chance to hug and kiss him, teach him his letters and numbers, the colors and shapes, the animal sounds, all the starts of the ways of the world that accompany a person through life like rocks in a hard stream, put there as if for crossing.

9780743244022, titled "Polly's Ghost" | Scribner, April 29, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: "I only wish I ever had the chance to hug and kiss him, teach him his letters and numbers, the colors and shapes, the animal sounds, all the starts of the ways of the world that accompany a person through life like rocks in a hard stream, put there as if for crossing.

9780684835891 | Scribner, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A woman who dies giving birth to her youngest child returns nine years later to watch over the child and finds herself intervening in his life

9780684835075 | Scribner, July 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: When first she finds a tiny, sharp lump in her breast and then the museum where she is curator burns down, Isobel Albright realizes her reasonable, predictable life will never be the same and embarks on an empowering and humorous journey to newness

9780684846279 | Reprint edition (Scribner Paperback Fiction, January 1, 2000), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: When first she finds a tiny, sharp lump in her breast and then the museum where she is curator burns down, Isobel Albright realizes her reasonable, predictable life will never be the same and embarks on an empowering and humorous journey to newness.

9780802115393 | Grove Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Charts the sometimes troubling, sometimes amusing relationship of a young Midwestern couple, Cara and Douglas, as they grapple with problems of family, intimacy, and love and struggle toward a mutual understanding

9780802133854 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Cara and Douglas, a young married couple in the Midwest, are on a reproductive adventure, a journey through love, physical intimacy, childbirth, abortion, and birth control.

9781555971373 | Graywolf Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: As Liz, a temporary mail carrier in a dying Midwestern town, notices the growing numbers of vacant homes along her route, she becomes aware of the abandonments in her own life, among her family and friends

9780802133502 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: An exquisitely written novel about the delicate balance between loss and desire, abandonment and renewal, and the fragility of relationships.

9780877451754 | 1 edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, March 1, 1988), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A dozen stories deal with the motivations, feelings, and impulses behind unexpected moments of jealousy, loneliness, and violence

9781555971458 | Graywolf Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A dozen stories deal with the motivations, feelings, and impulses behind unexpected moments of jealousy, loneliness, and violence

9780899195018 | Ticknor & Fields, February 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by Frucht, Abby