A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil In this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers-all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters. In "Subject to Diary," a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood. In "The Year of the Green Pudding," a woman who seems to doom everyone and everything she touches vows never to fall in love again. And an analyst's office is the setting for a series of stories that feature four female patients-including a murderer-who lay bare their souls. Featuring locales that range from Sarajevo to Copenhagen to a hospital for the criminally insane, Moon Over Minneapolis is a major collection from an author whose sardonic wit and razor-edge humor reveal her own humanity and hope for the human race.
"Weldon writes with her usual humor and intelligence . . . like bonbons laced with medicine, [these stories] go down quite easily and pleasantly if you can forget that they're supposed to be good for you."
Publishers Weekly
"Moon Over Minneapolis has parables for everyone, words for us all. Sharp, witty, incisive, [Weldon] pares off layers of everyday superficialities."
The Times (London)
"Has the capacity, especially when approaching the casual horror which awaits us all at the end of many of her stories, to make one splutter with merriment at the same time as twitching with anguish."
