Show Don't Tell Stories

Curtis Sittenfeld

eBook - 2025

A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel Prep—from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy“[Sittenfeld’s] perfectly contained stories are a joy.”—Booklist, starred reviewIn 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 Patron Saints of Middle Age,” a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since... her divorce. In “A for Alone,” a married artist embarks on a creative project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence... more