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A dozen "vibrant . . . strikingly perceptive" stories about love—romantic, familial, comedic, and tragic, by the celebrated novelist and playwright ( Booklist ). Crossing a range of landscapes and eras, spanning age and gender, and circling taboos with a sly wit, "these 12 luminous stories . . . feature narrators who find mature, often solitary forms of reckoning, and even happiness. There is not a false note in Bingham's striking collection" ( Publishers Weekly ). In "A Gift for Burning" a woman regrets wasting all her energy on getting married, getting unmarried, and getting married again; "That Winter" introduces us to a woman writer in a Colorado cabin, isolated by the brutal weather, and liberated by a mysterious guest; in "Sagesse," an American family gets a startling awakening while vacationing on the beaches of Normandy after World War II; the fearsome and tiring demands of matrimony are exposed in "Porn"; "Sweet Peas" exquisitely seizes