Onlookers: Stories betrayal and revenge--three decades in

betrayal and revenge--three decades in the making--The Spinach King explores the author's complicated family legacy and the dark corners of the American Dream

who offers brief flashes of respite in an otherwise foreboding life

promote healing

But now the unthinkable has happened

Jacobs offers some simple

Onlookers: Stories betrayal and revenge--three decades in* "Supple, superb." The Boston Globe * "A deft mash of lonesomeness and wit." Chicago Tribune * "Her best in more than two decades." The New York Times * Award winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a "sophisticated, idiosyncratic, and witty" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) collection of linked stories set in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a moment of unrest. Onlookers is collection of extraordinary stories about people living in the same