A Blind Corner

From the award-winning author of Mrs. and The Fundamentals of Playcomes a brilliant and biting short story collection about pride, privilege, and our nagging need to belong. In an era of hot takes and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of niceness. In Macys world, human desires and fatal blind spots slam headlong into convenient, social-media-driven narratives that would sort us into neat boxes of insider or outsider; good or bad; with us or against us. Time and again, whether at home or in the age-old role of Americans abroad, Macys women see their good intentions turn awry. A woman who tries to do a good deed for an underprivileged child sees it go horribly wrong. A wife, attempting to be a good host to a friends strange ex-boyfriend, finds herself in a compromised situation. And,...