The Courtship

The Courtshipis a collection of short stories with characters from the very young to the elderly who seem uncannily familiar to us in their pain, delight, and love.In The Dressa child's birthday party turns into a bizarre psychodrama. In The Courtshipseventy-seven-year-old Mrs. Knickle romantically pursues eighty-year-old Mr. Van Buskirk with some hesitation, however, as she has come to enjoy her afternoons of peanut butter sandwiches and reading. And in Elliot's Daughtera writer, not only unrequited in love but unpublished, confesses his frustrations to his diary.