The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth Rome metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories

In The Boundary, one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker s daughter, who nurses a wound from her family s immigrant past. In P s Parties, a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds...