New York: Ecco Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a highly praised collection of eight short stories - Jim Crace called it an "unexpected joy to discover a new resolute American writer with a global outlook. [These] sensitive but unflinching stories take us golfing in Myanmar, birding in Colombia and smuggling in Haiti to present a rogues' gallery of Quiet Americans in uniforms or business suits and a world turned toxic by their hunger for the deal, the dollar, the dame." Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction. 229 pp. ISBN: 978-0060885588.

New York: Delphinium Books / Harper Collins, (1998) dj. The author's first book, a collection of interconnected stories set in Rosenau, an isolated Austrian Village, told from the viewpoints of different members of the village, from 1909 through 1977, layering story upon story to develop the village and the characters. Cover praise from Dorothy Allison who calls it "a heartbreakingly beautiful piece of work" and Charles Baxter who says "a book of marvels." Winner of the Pen Hemingway award. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-883285143.