Andrew Holleran

Grieving over the death of his mother, a jaded professor heads for the nation's capital to recuperate and finds in his lonely landlord and the journals of Mary Todd Lincoln insights into the feelings of loneliness, yearning, and mourning.

"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--