Self-Help

In nine captivating stories, the author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? probes the pleasures and pains of modern relationships, offering poignant yet wickedly funny advice on How to Be an Other Woman, How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes), and for surviving other modern crises of loss and love.

Brisk, ironic ... scalpel-sharp.... A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories. --The New York Times Book Review

In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.