Information about the author
Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received numerous grants and awards, including those from the Lannan Foundation, the National Book Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.

Blurb text
A collection of short stories forming an idiosyncratic guide to female existence, first published 30 years ago, and included in the list of Faber Modern Classics.

Foreword
Included in the launch list of Faber Modern Classics, published in April 2015.

Summary
Complicated, awkward.