Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, peopled by characters who live on the margins, with settings ranging from Seattle to Florida to Montana. The blackly comic title story and 'Xmas, Jamaica Plain' were chosen for the Best Short Stories anthologies in 1995 and 1996. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-395-78588x.