In the Miro District and other stories

In this magnificent collection of eight exquisite short stories: A Tennessee man ponders his sister's marriage -- and his parents' strange participation in its undoing. A country cousin staying with relative in Nashville becomes her own most severe -- and tragic -- critic. A writer discovers the true meaning of heroism in a visit to his elderly mother. And in the masterful title story, a teenage boy provokes his grandfather to a move neither could have expected.