If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Fiction - Softcover

"Incisive."--People

"Powerful."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Pitch-perfect."--O: The Oprah Magazine

"Sparkling."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Original and surprising."--Chicago Tribune

"So deft, so understated, and so compelling . . . Fans of Mary Gaitskill, Amy Bloom, and Miranda July will feel like they've found gold in a river when they discover Robin Black." --O: The Oprah Magazine

"Each story reads like a mini-novel. . . . Worlds are contained in a single page. And the writing . . . oh, the writing."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Characters so fully imagined you'll feel they're in the room."--People

"Powerful and touching . . . sparkling with poetic vision."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Exquisitely distilled tales of loss and reckoning."--Vogue

FINALIST FOR THE FRANK O’CONNOR SHORT STORY AWARD

NOW WITH AN ADDITIONAL STORY

Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers into the minds and hearts of people navigating the unsettling transitions that life presents to us all: A father struggles to forge an independent identity as his blind daughter prepares for college. A mother comes to terms with her adult daughter’s infidelity. An artist mourns the end of a romance while painting the portrait of a dying man. Brilliant, hopeful, and fearlessly honest, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This illuminates the truths of human relationships, truths we come to recognize in these characters and in ourselves.