NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs A collection of twelve stories that's 'one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability' (The New York Times Book Review). A volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power of their language. From the opening story, 'Willing'--about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being--Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. In the story 'Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People' ('There is nothing as complex in the
