Show Don-t Tell

Razor-sharp, glittering collection of stories exploring marriage and female friendship, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife.

In -Lost But Not Forgotten,- Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a chance to see how our beloved character Lee Fiora is doing thirty years later, when she returns for an awkward school reunion. In -The Patron Saints of Middle Age,- a woman looks up two best friends that she moved away from after her divorce. In -Creative Differences,- a photographer from the mid-west quickly realizes that the -documentary- she stars in is actually a commercial for a multi-national corporation. And in -The Marriage Clock,- a Hollywood producer falls for a bestselling Christian self-help author while working on their film adaptation.

In these twelve dazzling stories, Sittenfeld skewers our assumptions about fame, marriage and celebrity. Laying bare on the page what we-re all thinking but hesitate to say, she explores women-s lives at the intersection of sex, love, ambition and the entangled pursuit of a fulfilling life.