Monogamy: Stories

Marly Swick is a sort of archaeologist of the heart, and in Monogamy she demonstrates a remarkable understanding of her subject. Swick shows us the contemporary family in its true form, fractured and enduring, and her insights and observations are at once tender and jarringly accurate. The characters in these stories face real hardship-spouses and children lost to tragedy or failed understanding-yet their grief is mad bearable by the humor and generosity of Swick's vision.