Product Description: Taking ordinary lives and dissecting their ironies, injustices, and pleasures, this collection possesses a humane eye and wry sense of humor. A young woman working as a maid in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor’s orders; a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex’s new life; and a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his father’s remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in the background...read more

Product Description: Once, Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age - although they’ve gone about it in very different ways...read more

Product Description: Once, Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age―although they’ve gone about it in very different ways...read more

The first American compilation of award-winning short fiction by the Australian author of the travel memoir Sing and Don't Cry explores the hidden depths of the human psyche, as well as the conflict between our inner lives, the outside world, our secret motivations, and the traumas that transform our lives. Original.