The title of Christine Schutt's second collection strikes the theme of swiftly passing time that runs through each of the stories. In "The Life of the Palm and the Breast" a woman watches her half-grown children running through the house and wonders: Whose boys are these? Whose life is this? The title story tells of a grandfather who has lived long enough to see his daughter's struggles echoed in his granddaughter and how her unhappiness leads him to unexpectedly feel the weight of his years. In "Darkest of All" a mother's relationship with her sons is wreaked by a repeated cycle of drugs and...

"Prosperous Friends" proves Schutt to be one of the finest stylists alive. "Los Angeles Review of Books"
Artful . . . Astonishing . . . Piercingly real . . . The poetic concision and allusiveness of Schutt s] prose give the story more heft than a mere two-hundred pages would suggest. . . . Her sentences never waste a phrase or even a word. In these finely cut scenes . . . Schutt deals killing blows with such short, precise movements that at first you barely register the wound. "The Washington Post "
In her new novel, Christine Schutt, two-time winner of the O. Henry Prize for...

Uber die Erziehung ihrer Kinder gestaltet eine Gesellschaft ihre eigene Zukunft. In diesem Buch zeigt die Medizinern Christine Schutt, dass alles Streiten uber den richtigen Weg der Erziehung unserer Kinder nichts bringt, wenn man die zugrundeliegenden biologischen Gesetzmassigkeiten der Interaktion von Eltern und Kleinkindern nicht kennt oder glaubt, sie ignorieren zu konnen. Die Aussenansicht einer Nicht-Padagogin wird schnell zu einem Blick ins tiefste Innere: Erziehung ist Aktion und Reaktion, wie ein Ping-Pong-Spiel. Was dabei auf beiden Seiten passiert, wird in diesem Buch offengelegt....