Fresh complaint

Description:

This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.

subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author),  Poets,  Fiction,  Envy,  Embezzlement,  College freshmen,  Short stories,  New York Times reviewed,  Crises,  FICTION / Short Stories,  FICTION / Literary