The seven-year atomic make-over guide

Christine Bell

From the admired author of Saint and The Perez Family come stories to touch the heart and mind alike, resonant with the sense of magic in everyday life and the generous way with character that are the hallmarks of Christine Bell's writing. In "Mockingbird," the one sound sleeper in a family of insomniacs recounts the travails of being married to a woman whose quest for a good night's rest drives her to ever more maddening quirks of behavior, and then into the arms of another man. "A Pillow and a Rock" invites us to imagine what may really have happened in the Presley household on the night Elvis and his stillborn (or was he?) twin brother came into the world, from the perspective of a worn-out country midwife faced with a seemingly insoluble dilemma: what to do with a motionless baby who won't cry, but won't die either? In "Cliff from Chicago, Annie McDermott, and Me," a woman finds...

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