Mendocino and Other Stories

Ann Packer's first book collects ten stories about people whose routines hide feelings that are about to change their lives. In the title story, a woman visiting her brother in Northern California faces the end of their shared childhood. Other stories follow a ninth-grader trying to remake herself the year her father dies, and a newlywed who fixates on the suicide of her house's previous owner. The settings range from California to the East Coast and Midwest.

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