Or nearly, anyway! A shout-out from Stanford Magazine. Did Curtis Sittenfeld’s book get that? Nooooo (of course, it doesn’t need the help.)
| Things That Pass for Love Allison Amend, ‘96 OV Books $16.95 In one of this book’s wide-ranging, funny and observant stories, a character fights her urge to correct someone’s pronunciation and says, “Since becoming a teacher, I sometimes forget I don’t have dominion over every erring thing.” Amend, who teaches fiction in New York City, has lots of affection for those who are erring, off-kilter, tenuously sane, or otherwise not-quite-in-charge. |