Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walbert's very highly praised debut collection, containing fourteen interlocked short stories, set in the years ranging from 1954 to 1992. "The first half of the book chronicles the life of Marion Clark, a 'company wife' who repeatedly packs the household and accompanies her husband around the globe with a 'melancholy view before her of what seemed like endless houses with endless garages and endless kitchen windows.' In the stories that follow, her adult daughter, Rebecca, dutifully attempts to fulfill her mother's thwarted aspirations, 'but isn't sure where to go'." SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 1-889330159.