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From the National Book Award-winning author of I Married You for Happiness: âTuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story.ââEntertainment Weekly (A-) An artist learns that her deceased ex-husband had an especially illicit affair years before his death. A couple living in Thailand worries about the mental stability of their best friend, a U. S. army captain. On a ship bound for Antarctica, a retired couple strains to hold their forty-year marriage together. And a French family flees to Lima in the 1940s, with devastating consequences for their daughterâs young nanny. These âevocative stories of beautiful language and masterful economyâ (The Boston Globe) span the better part of the twentieth century and almost every continent, excavating both the opportunities that arise from loss and the moments that knock lives onto a collision course and an uncertain future. âReminiscent of the exquisite short stories of Edith Pearlmanâ¦We become intimate witnesses to these private lives falling apart and, in some cases, coming back together.ââThe Boston Globe âFor me, the most thrilling short stories conjure the psychological depth and chronological sweep typical of the novel. The ten stories in Lily Tuckâs The House at Belle Fontaine all do this.ââThe Plain Dealer (Cleveland) âTuck is a geniusââLos Angeles Times |
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