Show Don't Tell Stories

Curtis Sittenfeld, Michael Crouch, George Newbern, Xe Sands, Emily Rankin, Nicole Lewis, Kristen Sieh

eAudio - 2025

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy “blends acerbic wit, shrewd insight and sharp-eyed observation [in this] bravura collection” (The Washington Post), including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel Prep“Each of these witty, intelligent stories is a slice of modern life.”—PeopleA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Denver Public Library Best Book Of the YearIn her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long held beliefs are overturned.In “The Pat...ron Saints of Middle Age,” a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In “A for Alone,” a... more