A very witty and perceptive collection by a fine writer. Would love to see more but blessedly this is the kind of fiction that you can read more than once and still enjoy on each reading. I am off to her novel!

This writer isn't afraid to be smart about human errors we all make. Her stories about family and motherhood and estrangement from people closest to us are shockingly insightful and I felt I had lived in her shoes by the time I finished reading. Her story, "Mammalia," about a mother coming to terms with her own daughter's sexuality is amazing. This writer is a British transplant and has all the elegance of Virginia Woolf and the common ground of every American woman.

I picked up this book knowing nothing of Grossman's earlier work, but that's my next stop. So smart, so funny, so sad. She's English, apparently, and I get the feeling it's her outsider status that allows her to see America so clearly. What a beautiful book.