The author of Monkeys and Evening focuses her observant eye and
lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New
Yorkers. As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories
uncover small moments that yield larger truths--about the ways in which
women and men come together and come apart again, about the
disappointments and hopes of lovers who know what they want but don't
always know how to keep. A deeply poignant meditation on the nature of
desire and loss.