Fresh Complaint Summary
Eugenides, Jeffrey

Fresh Complaint Overview

The first collection of short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, written between 1995 and 2017. These ten short stories explore moral predicaments faced by characters in the midst of a failing American dream. Eugenides depicts the psychological depths of his characters in moving portraits that encapsulate the difficulty of navigating worlds of desire and social constraints. Each character must make an impossible and often catastrophic choice and must face the cruelties of reality without compromising their true self.