In her newest collection of 25 short stories, Oates penetrates the formidable psyches of her characters and weaves tales that are frightening in their awareness of the all-too-human potential for good and evil. Winner of the Distinguished eBook Award for Fiction.

In her newest collection of 25 short stories, Oates penetrates the formidable psyches of her characters and weaves tales that are frightening in their awareness of the all-too-human potential for good and evil. Winner of the Distinguished eBook Award for Fiction.

In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power.