What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of
the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter
LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers
working in the short fiction genre today.
In this collection of eleven stories, LaSalle explores how everyday life
for many--an FBI agent, a study-abroad student, a drug dealer's chic
girlfriend, a trio of Broadway playwrights, among others--can often take
on something much larger than that, almost the texture of a haunting
dream. Marked by stylistic daring and a rare lyricism in language, this
is intense, thoroughly moving fiction that probes the contemporary
American psyche, portraying it in all its frequently painful sadness and
also its brave and unflagging hope.