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"Anne Leigh Parrish has created an accumulation of stories that deserve a location on the rack alongside Raymond Carver, Tom Boyle, Richard Bausch, and different detectives of lives gone wrong. Parrish creates with agonizing understanding about partnerships made bitter, kids at conflict with their parents, ladies moving in one harmful connection to a different, and about unforeseen acts of generosity-an impoverished lady offering her struggling violin into a priest who'd befriended her, a schoolgirl who bribes a child to fake a pursuit within an obese classmate, subsequently discovers that her kindness has devastating effects. These are artistic and powerful tales, from attentive reading is warranted by a writer who." - D. Eileen Curtis, Fiction Editor, The Atlantic Monthly