Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and–transgressive. –Paula Fox

These are marvelous stories of experience and have the ripeness of wry, hard-won wisdom. –Phillip Lopate

Bingham has the eye to see where a story lives, the heart to understand it, and the voice–and craft–to tell it. –Robin Morgan In her wise and sexy new collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day transgressions in affairs of the heart. She offers up a m nage 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.