New York: SOHO Press, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a finalist for the 1996 Earnest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction and an ALA Notable Book of the Year. "A pregnant, unmarried schoolteacher returns to her childhood home in a New Jersey seaside resort town in this expertly wrought, acutely observed first novel. Jane Haus narrates the last six months of her pregnancy, during which she revives relationships with her crotchety father and her older sister and struggles to understand the lasting emotional damage wrought upon them by her unhappy mother's illness and death." (PW) SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 1-569470421.