A collection of stories by the author of "Dear Mr. Capote" and "Peru" captures the significance of the trivial details and everyday experiences that often add up to create the majority of an individual's memories.

A series of letters written by a husband to the women volunteers who looked after his wife in her dying days. They begin as polite thank you notes, but gradually deteriorate into insults. A look at the anger, self-pity, even madness, that grief can engender.

"Gordon Lish's first novel tells the story of a serial killer who wants Truman Capote to write his biography. In the letter the killer writes to Capote, the details of his life and his modus operandi are revealed."--Goodreads

Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, "There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it." Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret-real or imagined-unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his hare lipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox ... (unless he didn't). Peru's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the...