and "Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and - transgressive. and " - Paula Fox and "These are marvelous stories of experience and have the ripeness of wry, hard-won wisdom. and " - Phillip Lopate and "Bingham has the eye to see where a story lives, the heart to understand it, and the voice - and craft - to tell it. and " - Robin Morgan In her wise and sexy new collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day and "transgressions and " in affairs of the heart. She offers up a menage a trois, an older woman's affair with a student, a painter who uses his age as an excuse to behave indecorously. But the reader quickly discovers the real transgressions are those of the self against the self.