Book jacket image for Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

Random House

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STARRED REVIEW

Show Don’t Tell

Curtis Sittenfeld’s stories in Show Don’t Tell are often dryly funny and occasionally heartbreaking. It’s a satisfying report from the front lines of middle age.

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Review of ‘Show Don’t Tell’

In her second story collection, Show Don’t Tell, novelist Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep, Romantic Comedy) mines midlife—the cringey moments and also the unexpected shifts in perspective. “One of the surprises of adulthood for me has been that, as the years pass, it has become less rather than more clear to me whether…

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