Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book , a collection of interrelated short stories. Publishers Weekly called this "An intense, edgy, boldly candid and irrepressibly sardonic voice drives the 21 inter-linked stories in this collection, mainly narrated by the eponymous Gloria Bronski. Exiled from Manhattan to a recovery community in Minnesota, Glory minces no words in confessing that she is a former drug addict and alcoholic. She's also HIV positive , chronically depressed, and aching for sex, love and connection." The title story was included in Best American Stories for 1998. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. Winner of a Whiting Writers' Award 2001. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-566891019.