Show Don't Tell Stories

Curtis Sittenfeld

eBook - 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’ ChoiceIn 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 fr...iends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In “A for Alone,” a married artist embarks on a creative project intended to... more