Engaged to be married, Anna Crane reflects back on her childhood in small-town Ohio during the 1960s and 1970s with two sisters and charismatic, self-destructive mother as she recalls her own first love affair with a troubled boy, her...

"It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy…It is so easy to achieve." —Kim's journal entry, May 3, 1988 On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old sis...

From a critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet comes "a delightfully hybrid book: part anthology, part critical study, part autobiography" (Chicago Tribune) that is organized around fifty-one remarkab...