Adultery & Other Choices

This “haunting and subtle” collection of short stories offers a compassionate portrayal of man’s journey from childhood to maturity ( Publishers Weekly ). For the adolescents in Part One of Andre Dubus’s Adultery & Other Choices , youth is characterized by humiliation, alienation, and disappointment: A son struggles to connect with his distant father, and later he must overcome a schoolyard bully. Then, for the soldiers that inhabit Part Two, service is synonymous with sacrifice, as marriage