Ordinary Love & Good Will is not to offer a

is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes

Deesha Philyaw

leaves heartache in his wake

When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery

Ordinary Love & Good Will is not to offer aFrom the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres and "one of her generation's most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love" (The New York Times) comes two exquisite twin novellas that chronicle the difficult choices that reshape the lives of two very different families. In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman's infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on her children long after her departure. Good Will portrays a