Female Trouble Stories

Female Troublefeatures thirteen wise, funny, and startlingly perceptive stories about the vagaries and revelations of womanhood. Named byThe New Yorkeras one of the twenty best writers of her generation, Antonya Nelson explores the broad notion of family from myriad angles inFemale Trouble.Set in the vividly rendered Midwest, these moving stories are dark and honest portraits of people in moral quandaries, gray areas, unclear circumstances -- from the three-timing thirty-year-old man of the title story to the divorced mother of a turbulent teen in "Incognito" to the sexually adventurous daughter of an adulterous mother in "Stitches." WithFemale Trouble,Nelson has created a cast of memorable characters who reveal us to ourselves with disturbing clarity and conscience.

Antonya Nelson teaches creative writing at the University of Houston, and is the award-winning author of three novels and four short story collections. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Best American Short Stories. She divides her time among Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.