Half in Love

Most of the stories are set in Meloy’s native Montana. Others are set in Paris, wartime London, and Greece. In “Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976,” two couples face a complicated grief when one of the four dies. In “Ranch Girl,” the college-bound daughter of a ranch foreman must choose which adult world she wants to occupy. In “A Stakes Horse,” a woman confronts risk and loss at the racetrack and at home. And in “Aqua Boulevard”—winner of the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction—an elderly Parisian confronts his mortality.

“There are times when a writer nails a story the way a diver nails a dive.... Half in Love offers up both plain speaking and mystery, subtlety and shock. That hole in the water marks where the final plunge of a story took your heart along with it.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A sparkling debut.” —The New York Times

“Tremendously beautiful. A writer not of promise, but with a fully realized gift.”
—San Diego Union-Tribune

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