Annotation
The incomparable Oates-recent winner of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle-offers 16 stories previously published in venues ranging from The New Yorker to Ellery Queen. As the titles suggests, she finds the bite in the banality of life.
Awards
2010 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
Characters
| Name | Hadley |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Upper class |
| Widow | |
| Name | Kruppe, Anton |
| Gender | Male |
| Traits | European |
| Immigrant | |
| Name | Sophie |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Upper class |
| Widow | |
| Name | Jeremiah |
| Gender | Male |
| Name | Myer, Adrienne |
| Gender | Female |
| Trait | Widow |
| Genre | Fiction Domestic Psychological Collection |
| Topics | Loss Upper classes Widows Life changes Immigrants Wills Family relationships Grief |