Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's rather uncommon first book, a collection of ten short stories, which was the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1984. Frederick Busch, one of the judges, called this collection "superb. . . she is one of the most inventive new writers I have come across in a long time." 181 pp. ISBN: 0-87745132X.