Bøger af Jean (Johns Hopkins University) McGarry

From the author of "Airs of Providence", "The Very Rich Hours", and "The Courage of Girls", this book brings together a dozen new stories.

They may be sad too, but it is a dry-eyed melancholy that is no relation-or perhaps just a poor relation-to the air of "Danny Boy."

Family pleasures, marriage, the essential moments and mysteries of a seemingly ordinary world that break into magical territory before we can brace ourselves-Jean McGarry puts us in life's rough seas with what the New York Times has called a "deft, comic, and devastatingly precise" hand.