Susan Minot focuses her observant eye and lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers. As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths about the ways in which women and men come together and come apart again, about the disappointments and hopes of lovers who know what they want but don't always know how to keep it.

Contents:

• One
  • Lust
  • Sparks
  • Blow
  • City Night
• Two
  • Lunch with Harry
  • The Break-up
  • The Swan in the Garden
  • The Feather in the Toque
• Three
  • The Knot
  • A Thrilling Life
  • Île Sèche
  • The Man Who Would Not Go Away