Drowning Lessons: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water's presence as both a vital and a potentially hazardous element in our lives.

"You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands.

Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what surrounds or contains it."