Someday this will be funny

 by Lynne Tillman. We humans are the narrating animal, a fact of infinite implication that Tillman explores with wit and sagacity in her new, uncanny short-story collection. An adventurous and artistic fiction writer (American Genius, 2006) and essayist, Tillman mesmerizes us with sly characters busy assessing perplexing predicaments, luring our awareness away from language. Yet somehow she also draws our attention to the glimmering power of words as her reflective and drolly funny narrators tell their surprising, many-layered tales. One is fascinated by a pair of nesting mourning doves. Another, in a wickedly funny take on the irony of psychotherapy, declares tha. her imagination was her best feature. Tillman celebrates ambivalence and marriage i. Chartreus. and dissects inheritance i. But There's a Family Resemblance. She portrays with unique insight Clarence Thomas and Marvin Gaye in concentrated yet profoundly revealing tales, and in the rhapsodic and mischievou. Love Sentence. she considers how we talk of love. Delectably intricate and incisive, comedic and empathic, Tillman's push-and-pull stories traverse the paradoxes of body and mind and beautifully affirm the necessity and largesse of stories. --Booklist (Check Catalog)