Mrs. Bertrice Martin--a widow, some seventy-three years young--has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of nine and sixty, crashes into her life. The Terrible Nephew is living in her rooming house, and Violetta wants him...

A story of two couples: One, a young woman in love with a womanizer; the other, one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover.

"A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in contemporary literature"-- Seventeen year old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance. His sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads to his deportation to South Korea,...

A womanizing brain surgeon and his two lovers achieve maturity after the putting down of the Prague Spring by Soviet troops.