Greta Herskovitz looked down at her husband's shoes one morning and saw with shocking clarity that she was going to leave him. The shoes were earnest,inexpensive brown wingtips. Greta was wearing a pair of pointy alligator flats...Lee was a kind, quiet man. If he ever fell out of love with Greta, she knew he would go into therapy and fix it. But she hadn't bargained on her own success.

Rebecca Miller's powerful debut explores the multi-faceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits.Modern and diverse, these women of different classes and ages struggle with sexuality, fate, motherhood, infidelity,desperation and an overriding will to survive.

Rebecca Miller is a stunning new voice in American fiction. In these edgy, illuminating stories, her prose is crisp, her voices true and her understanding of women's lives astounding.

Greta

Delia

Louisa

Julianne

Bryna

Nancy

Paula