From the author of The Australian comes an award-winning collection of short stories that fearlessly explore desire, power, obsession, and our secret selves. In Greyhounds, a college student unexpectedly finds empowerment through her submissive role in bondage and sadomasochism, a pious widow seeks vengeance on her hoarding neighbor, two young sisters become locked in a dangerous game that may change their lives forever, and a woman s reticence transforms into devotion when she learns of her boyfriend s compulsion to kill animals.Impassioned, daring, and steeled with clear-eyed empathy, Smith-Stevens stories expose what drives us, what haunts us, and what tears us apart.
