This Close

This Close, a graceful, moving new collection by the author of The Report

*An NPR and Flavorwire Best Book of the Year *

How close can we come to love, success, happiness, forgiveness?

An older woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbor's yard "improvements," offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable garden. A recent college graduate living in New York City finds himself in a strangely entangled friendship with his dry cleaner and her son. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain.

Through thirteen stories, some stand-alone, others woven with linked characters, Kane questions the tensions between friendship and neighborliness, home and travel, family and ambition. In writing filled with wit and humor and incredible poignancy, she deftly reveals the everyday patterns that, over time, can swerve a life off course.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 03/05/2013
ISBN: 9781555976361
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.59w x 0.51d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2013
Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 65
Publishers Weekly 01/21/2013 pg. 39
Booklist 02/01/2013 pg. 26
Foreword 02/26/2013