Games and Rituals

¿Superb¿THE TIMES¿Joyous¿THE OBSERVERThe beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love ¿ friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts ¿ in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny¿s characters range from mischievous to tender. In ¿Bridesmaid, Revisited,¿ Marilee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid¿s dress to work. In ¿Twist and Shout,¿ Ericka¿s elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In ¿Turn Back, Turn Back,¿ a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor¿s deception. And in ¿561,¿ Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband¿s ex-wife move out of the family home.From one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong sho