Joyce Carol Oates 
Dear Husband 
Stories

[Oates] has once again held a haunting mirror up to America, revealing who we are.Boston Globe The inimitable Joyce Carol Oates returns with Dear Husbanda gripping and moving story collection that powerfully re-imagines the meaning of family in America, often through violent means. Oates, a former recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fictionas well as the National Book Award, Prix Femina, and numerous other literary honorsdazzles and disturbs with an outstanding compilation the Washington Post calls, Savage, poetic and ruthless…among the best things shes ever done. Dear Husband is another triumph for the author of The Gravediggers Daughter, We Were the Mulvaneys, and Blonde.