Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2015.
Funny, heartbreaking, and real these twelve stories showcase a dynamic range of voices belonging to characters who can t stop confessing. They are obsessive storytellers, disturbed professors, depressed auctioneers, gambling clergy. A fourteen-year-old boy gets baptized and speaks in tongues to win the love of a girl who ushers him into adulthood; a troubled insomniac searches the woods behind his mother s house for the awful pretty singing that begins each midnight; a school-system employee plans a year-end party...