Baby: And Other Stories in Bloomington, MN

Paula Bomer is a dangerous writer. The short stories in her debut collection are subversive portraits of the modern American family. From a husband who traces his internal crisis to witnessing his wife giving birth, to a mother who forces her young son on a rainy walk through a cemetery as she contemplates the detritus of her marriage, Bomer's characters are hauntingly familiar. Their fear and rage, their failures and desires are our own.