If Not For This, by Pete Fromm
“True love with a cost may be Pete Fromm’s calling card,” writes Heidi Willis in the review of this new novel, “his stories peppered with characters who inhabit broken places.”
“True love with a cost may be Pete Fromm’s calling card,” writes Heidi Willis in the review of this new novel, “his stories peppered with characters who inhabit broken places.”
Once upon a time in Seattle I lived with a lawyer, a librarian, an engineer, and a retailer. We threw dance-y parties and hosted champagne and apricot scone brunches. We read by the fireplace and played after dinner games of Settlers of Catan. And although we did not know one another prior to moving in together—we met the old-fashion way, on craigslist—we became close. It started with the lawyer, and after a time the whole house was online dating. They, like many twenty-odds, were using OkCupid—“the Google of online dating.” Soon, our wholesome after dinner board games changed to after […]
