In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which
became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to
be home. Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only
relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured
communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.'s wealthy
elite and finds men and women both crass and tender, vicious and
desperate. With wit and intellect, Millet offers profound insight into
human behavior from the ordinary to the bizarre: strong-minded girls are
beset by the helpless, myopic executives are tormented by their
employees, and beastly men do beastly things.
Fresh off the critical triumph of Sweet Lamb of Heaven (longlisted for
the National Book Award), Millet is pioneering a new kind of
satire--compassionate toward its victims and hilariously brutal in its
depiction of modern American life.