"Compelling. . . . What Miller
offers. . . is a distinctive sensibility--a candid exploration of the frail and
gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal."--Boston Globe

In this riveting
collection of short stories, bestselling author Sue Miller writes compellingly
about a chapter in the moral history of our time.
The fascinating stories
featured in Inventing the Abbotts explore
the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships.
In the title story, a young man takes up
successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. Others
concern a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity, and a stricken
dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor. In one
story after another, Sue Miller presents a remarkable gallery of characters, offering
insight into contemporary men and women with their hungry hearts and dismayed
consciences.