Women and Children First: Stories - Softcover

"Meticulously observed." -The New York Times "Reading Women and Children First is like driving down the road with a companion who is so smart and funny and insightful that her conversation transforms the landscape." -Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres "Wise and witty." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday life It's one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales of Women and Children First, Francine Prose shows us an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, and a French literature professor who's begun to fear Madame Bovary. Prose's characters are lost, frightened, and alone-and far more like us than we might care to admit.