In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Wolff, Tobias. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780880014977.

Among the characters youll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ships social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolffs characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."