How It Was for Me: Stories

How It Was for Me: Stories by Greer, Andrew Sean. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312241056.

In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed, and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In "Cannibal Kings," a disillusioned young man accompanies a troubled boy on a tour of prep schools through the Pacific Northwest, only to realize that he has lost his way in life. And in "Come Live With Me And Be My Love," a middle-aged gentleman looks back at his mannered early life as a Ivy Leaguer, married to a vivacious woman but silently yearning for his best friend -- and the sacrifices that each made to uphold their compromising bargain. With a classic storytellers gift for nuance and understanding, and a poets grace for language, Andrew Sean Greer makes a remarkable debut with How It Was For Me.