by Andre Dubus
“I don’t know.”
He looked at his watch.
“You’re right,” he said. “It’s four o’clock.”
He walked beside her to her car; she unlocked it and opened the door, then turned to face him.
“I’m off Monday,” she said. “I want to go fishing.”
“Good.”
She got into the car and closed the door and opened the window and looked up at Jeff.
“The bluefish are in,” he said. “We’ll catch some Monday.”
“You already have some. Let’s eat them for lunch.”
“Today?”
“After we sleep. I don’t know where you live.”
“I’ll call and tell you. At one?”
“One is fine,” she said, and reached through the window and squeezed his hand. Then she drove east, smelling the ocean on the wind moving her hair.
BY ANDRE DUBUS
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“Stunning … a fine, deeply rewarding collection from one of this country’s ablest writers.”
—Anne Tyler
These twenty-three stories represent the best work of one of the finest and most emotionally revealing writers in America. Andre Dubus treats his characters—a bereaved father stalking his son’s killer, a woman crying alone by her television late at night, a devout teenager writhing in the coils of faith and sexuality—with respect and terrifying compassion.
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