A fast horse never brings good news : five stories

"Multiple award-winning author Cary Fagan displays his extraordinary range and talent in a new collection that is by turns sensitive, surprising, and outrageously funny. A disgruntled border in 1970s London watches an affair develop between his landlady and a young Canadian student. A woman recalls the family that lived in a very nice tree in her backyard. A fifteen-year-old girl steals a book from a "pretty little bookstore" and sets in motion a...