Not Where I Started From: Stories

Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Reverse of jacket spine lightly stained, jacket spine faded, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1993 Hard Cover. 239 pp. Author's first book. A debut collection of short stories evokes the theme of Americans struggling to cope in the midst of strange cultures, including a teenager in Central America, a New Yorker in Miami's Little Cuba, and a novitiate in a Burmese monastery.