Tell Me: Thirty Stories

"Author's Note: Several of the stories in this volume appear as they did originally in The New Yorker and are in slightly different form from the versions collected in Days and An Amateur's Guide to the Night. The author is most grateful to the magazine and especially to Roger Angell. "Coach," "Smoke," "In the Woods," "The Help," "I Get By," "Daughters," "Seizing Control," "Kite and Paint," "Trying," "Pretty Ice," "While Home," "In Jewel," "I Am Twenty-One," "Independence Day," "For Real," "May Queen," "The Wellman Twins," "Mirror," "Doctor's Sons," "What I Hear," "Smart," "Sisters," and "Yours" appeared in The New Yorker; "Likely Lake" appeared in The Paris Review; "Happy Boy, Allen" appeared in the Mississippi Review; "An Amateur's Guide to the Night" appeared in Seventeen; and "Your Errant Mom" appeared in "Gentleman's Quarterly." -- ECIP galley