G P Huffman: 3 books

College friends fret on the eve of separation. Going into the world, they feel that the future sparkles with limitless possibility and that their bond is unbreakable. Quickly a sort of social gravity catches them out, revealing that for adults choices are few and ties are tenuous. Their trajectories—pulling apart, drawing calamitously close—plot the erratic orbit of modern existence.

The four stories in this collection explore the vagaries of intimate human relationships. The subjects—a freshly retired couple with a no-longer-young daughter whose behavior still vexes them, two stoic men working adjacent farms in the American Midwest, a pair on the cusp of middle age facing a...

A Cambridge man wakes to find his home rendered strange, as if everything in it has been moved a fraction of a centimeter while he slept. In an irrational state he flees to the nearby international airport and purchases a ticket, certain that he is outrunning some horribly present danger. At the security...