她敏銳地洞察，並精準捕捉了日常生活裡稍縱即逝的瑣碎片刻，時而溫柔，時而尖銳。收錄沃利策1960至1970年代，陸續刊登於雜誌上的經典短篇，及一則全新故事。普立茲小說獎得主，《生活是頭安靜的獸》伊麗莎白斯特勞特為本書撰寫序言。A TIME 'New Books You Should Read'A People magazine 'Book of the Week'A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWith a foreword by Elizabeth Strout‘Electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories’ Lauren GroffAnother day! And then another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on forever in that exquisitely boring and beautiful way. But of course it wouldn’t; everyone knows that.In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard’s gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won’t leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered chainmail, Wolitzer
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