Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2014.
The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes's debut collection explore the secret lives of people how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman signs up for a hallucinogenic drug excursion in the Arizona desert. An uncertain girlfriend goes out into the world wearing a false pregnancy belly.
In "The Year of Perfect Happiness," the universe is recognizable but...