What the blurb on the back says...

"Rebecca Miller's powerful debut explores the multi-faceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits. Modern and diverse, these women of different classes and ages struggle with sexuality, fate, motherhood, infidelity, desperation, and an overriding will to survive.

We meet Greta, a cookbook editor chosen by the hottest writer of his generation to edit his new novel. When the book becomes a bestseller Greta is propelled out of her marriage by her own ambition and success. And Nancy, a psychologically troubled nine-year-old growing up within New York high society. Nancy likes to see how long she can be in a romm without her father noticing her; her record to date is one hour, seventeen minutes and thirty-four seconds...There's Delia, an abused wife who goes into hiding with her children, and Louisa, a painter who moves rapidly from one lover to the next, acting out a self-perpetuating drama over which she has no control.

Rebecca Miller is a stunning new voice in American fiction. In these edgy, illuminationg stories, her prose is crisp, her voices true and her understanding of women's lives astounding."

 

What I thought of it...

I found these bite-size stories very interesting, with vivid characters and lives. A few of the stories, I felt, could have been made into full length books - I was left with many questions at the end of them.