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A collection of twelve short stories from the O.Henry Prizewinning author. In ""Death in Rome,"" the shadow of cancer-and of an intimate secret-hangs over childhood friends on vacation. The unexpected confession of an affair reveals the unsettling truth about a loveless marriage, tainted with animal ferocity in ""Baboons."" A potential suitor allows ""Poor Cousins"" to embark on a scheme to inherit the extended family fortune from their paranoid wealthy uncle. In these tales and nine more, Shelia Kohler reveals the dysfunctions, the betrayals, and the emotions that drive human behavior in the search for connection-or just a moment of happiness-between people struggling to establish relationships. ""Her themes of displacement and alienation cut to the heart as she quietly strips away the tales we tell ourselves in order to go on from day to day."" -Booklist

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Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon matriculation at seventeen, she left for Europe. Kohler lived for fifteen years in Paris, where she got married and completed an undergraduate degree in literature at the Sorbonne and a graduate degree in psychology at the Institut Catholique. After raising her three children, she moved to the United States in 1981 and earned an MFA in writing at Columbia. Kohler has taught at The Writer's Voice, SUNY Purchase, Sarah Lawrence, Colgate, CCNY, Bennington, Columbia, and Princeton.

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