Come up and see me sometime – stories

The thirteen stories in this collection are linked by a common theme - the main characters are all young, childless, geographically and emotionally nomadic women who are searching for self-knowledge and satisfaction in the face of the vicissitudes of single life. In Krouse's hands, each of these agile stories manages to cull universal truth from idiosyncratic experience and delirious humor out of deepest pathos - For example 'The Fast' is about a woman who seeks power, independence and immunity from heartbreak through a brief flirtation with a latte diet. 'Drugs and You' is the story of an innocent woman who hits a heroin addict with her car and falls blindly in love. In 'My Weddings,' a woman nearing thirty relates a lifetime of attending nuptials, none of them her own.