How It Was for Me Stories

In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed, and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In "Cannibal Kings," a disillusioned young man accompanies a troubled boy on a tour of prep schools through the Pacific Northwest, only to realize that he has lost his way in life. And in "Come Live With Me And Be My Love," a middle-aged gentleman looks back at his mannered early life as a Ivy Leaguer, married to a vivacious woman but silently yearning for his best friend -- and the sacrifices that each made to uphold their compromising bargain. With a classic storyteller's gift for nuance and understanding, and a poet's grace for language, Andrew Sean Greer makes a remarkable debut with How It Was For Me.

Andrew Sean Greer's stories have been published in Esquire, Ploughshares, and Story. He was awarded Ploughshares' Cohen Award for Best Short Story in 1996, chosen by Richard Ford. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana, and currently lives in San Francisco, California.