If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
About this ebook
A blind teenager sees the fractures in her parents’ marriage more clearly than they can themselves. A mother comes to terms with her adult daughter’s infidelity, even as she keeps a disturbing secret of her own. An accident on a trip to Italy and an unexpected connection with a stranger cause a woman to question her lifelong assumptions about herself.
These stories are luminous, wise and unerringly humane, and their emotional generosity is all the more moving for Robin Black’s restrained and accomplished style. This is an extraordinarily poised collection from one of America’s brightest new voices.
About the author
Robin Black is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including One Story, Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and the anthology The Best Creative Nonfiction. A recipient of fellowships from the Leeway Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, Black is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She has taught at Bryn Mawr College and in the Brooklyn College MFA program. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.