Lost in Words

"Ann Calandro's stories glide from brief dreamlike appreciations of friendships to longer narratives about families. Her sentences are perfection, whether describing fries "crisp on the outside and meltingly soft within" or a survey designed to tell us where we can live in a divided continent. I'm grateful for these reports from a heart "pinioned at the border of memory and desire.'"-Carol Sklenicka, author of Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer and Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life"Stories of memorable relationships, magical moments, and surprising endings you will never forget. Ann Calandro is a master story teller."-Ilene Beckerman, author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore"Ann Calandro's stories lead us from the comfort of realistic details to compelling realms of fantasy."-Debra Ratner, author of short stories in The Yale Review, Redbook, and other journals