A collection of stories that won the 1997 John Simmons Short Fiction Award features a group of Detroiters, including a near-albino teenager, an angel, and an Italian-American family, on their way to love, loss, confrontation, and happiness.
The nine stories of Strange Love center on Annie Zito, a smart-but-not-always-wise divorced mother, and Marly, her strong yet vulnerable daughter, as they seek and stumble upon an odd cast of boys and men. All the stories are linked and alternate bet...
Of Lisa Lenzo’s first collection, Charles Baxter wrote: "Lenzo’s stories have a strong pulse of feeling and a sly intelligence, and her angels, children, and lovers have an eerie radiance, a hard-won wisdom, that you can spot on any page of this ...