Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious complexity. Her latest novel has roots in her own youth in Wichita, in the neighborhood stalked by the serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill). A story of wayward love and lost memory, of public and private lives twisting out of control, Bound is Nelson's most accomplished and emotionally riveting work. Catherine and Oliver, young wife and older entrepreneurial husband, are negotiating their difference in age and a plethora of well-concealed secrets. Oliver, now in his sixties, is a serial adulterer and has just fallen giddily in love yet again. Catherine, seemingly placid and content, has ghosts of a past she scarcely remembers. When Catherine's long-forgotten high school friend dies and leaves Catherine the guardian of her teenage daughter, that past comes rushing back. As Oliver manages his new love, and Catherine her new charge and darker past, local news reports turn up the volume on a serial killer who has reappeared after years of quiet. In a time of haunting and new revelations, Nelson's characters grapple with their public and private obligations, continually choosing between the suppression or indulgence of wild desires. Which way they turn, and what balance they find, may only be determined by those who love them most.

Seven short stories and a novella depict the impact of illness, addiction, and divorce on family life, often focusing on the inner lives of troubled teenagers.

The author, who was once selected by The New Yorker as one of the best writers for the twenty-first century, presents thirteen new stories--including 'Incognito,' 'Loose Cannon,' and the title story--about marriage, family, and female life. Reprint.

Thirty-three-year-old Winston Mabie is released from prison after serving five years for a drunk-driving accident that killed his grandmother, and now he and his family must come to terms with the pain of readjustment, broken hearts, addiction, mortality, and forgiveness.

Thirty-three-year-old Winston Mabie is released from prison after serving five years for a drunk-driving accident that killed his grandmother, and now he and his family must come to terms with the pain of readjustment, broken hearts, addiction, mortality, and forgiveness.

Teacher Birdy Stone considers her time in Pinetop, New Mexico, an adventure as each night she gets high with her best friend, Jesus, until a widow asks her to edit her memoir, and Birdy is drawn into her mysterious world and embarks on a love affair withthe widow's son, who happens to be one of Birdy's students

Explores the complex issues of permanent relationships in a collection of stories that focus on various stages of marriage, including those about to begin, in a state of transition, on the brink of ending, and destined to last forever (view table of contents)

Fourteen stories explore a world of migrant workers, blue-collar laborers, transient lovers, weak-spirited husbands, and women who define their lives by a need for a man's love (view table of contents)

Teacher Birdy Stone considers her time in Pinetop, New Mexico, an adventure as each night she gets high with her best friend, Jesus, until a widow asks her to edit her memoir, and Birdy is drawn into her mysterious world and embarks on a love affair with her son, who happens to be one of her students. 15,000 first printing.

A thirty-year-old woman struggles with the disparate feelings and passions she has toward two very different, well-meaning men, as well as the dramatic effects her choices have on herself and the families involved. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. AB. NYT.

Seven stories and a novella by the award-winning writer of The Expendables explore the heart of contemporary life and the ties of love, faith, anxiety, and antagonism that bind families together. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

A dozen stories deal primarily with marriages--whether just beginning, in progress, influx, or ending--including 'Substitute,' 'Cold Places,' 'Affair Lite,' and more