"If my mother were to tell the story .
In "Punnett\'s Squares," winner of the Chicago Tribune \'s Nelson Algren Award, an adopt.
In "Punitive Damages," a father, the beneficiary of a huge financial settlement in compensation for his son\'s death, must confront the truth of the life that the son\'s death has provided. ." So begins the title piece in this debut collection of short fiction, eight stories that explore the gap between the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we have lived. . "If my mother were to tell the story