Clothed, Female Figure: Stories

Clothed, Female Figure opens a singular investigation on women: mothers, daughters, gardeners, housecleaners, employers, friends, aunts, nannies. These eleven stories illuminate inner lives in the throes of coming-of-age, self-preservation, passing, motherhood, memory, and redemption.

There are dispatches from haloed single-girl apartments in New York; from the house behind the linden tree where th...