Mary Gaitskill’s most recent novel, Veronica, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, but this collection of short stories is what many of her fans have been waiting for. Don’t Cry, her first book of stories in more than a decade, doesn’t disappoint. Gaitskill’s ability to capture the pith and grist of human relationships is sometimes uncanny. Whether the issue is love, sex, aging, or parenting, she grasps what is most essential in a few vivid moments and pages. Several of these stories are classics waiting to be discovered; for starters, read “College Town 1980,” “Today I’m Yours,” and, definitely, the title piece.
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