Who Do You Love: Stories

In this acclaimed collection, Jean Thompson limns the lives of ordinary people -- a lonely social worker, a down-and-out junkie, a divorced cop on the night shift -- to extraordinary effect. With wisdom and sympathy and spare eloquence, she writes of their inarticulate longings for communion and grace.Yet even the saddest situations are imbued with Thompson s characteristic humor and a wry glimmer of hope. With Who Do You Love, readers will discover a writer with rare insight into the resiliency of the human spirit and the complexities of love.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 11/02/2000
ISBN: 9780743203012
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.74d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/12/2000 pg. 40
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 109