Stories: The Collected Short Fiction Chocolate Baking With the dream of Avalon

With the dream of Avalon in ruins

during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement

he barely leaves his bedroom

that harbors a succession of families—and becomes a quiet witness to a tumultuous century

Growing up in the ocean

Stories: The Collected Short Fiction Chocolate Baking With the dream of AvalonA New Yorker Most Anticipated Book of the Year A finely etched collection of short stories from the "generous, category defying imagination" (New York Times Book Review) of Helen Garner, one of Australia's most beloved writers "Perceptive and virtuosic . . . . these visceral, incandescent stories treat us to Garners companionable brilliance.The New York Times Book Review A woman sends postcards to a former lover from the idyllic Gold Coast. A chorus