Come to me : stories / Amy Bloom

Love is not a pie -- Song of Solomon -- Sleepwalking -- Hyacinths -- The sight of you -- Silver water -- Faultlines -- Only you -- Light breaks where no sun shines -- Semper fidelis -- When the year grows old -- Psychoanalysis changed my life.

Practicing psychotherapist Bloom has written 12 powerful short stories in a debut collection that abounds in psychological insights. Deviant human behavior is portrayed compassionately and honestly. In the story ``Love Is Not a Pie,'' a young girl learns the meaning of love when she witnesses her mother and father's involvement with another man in a menage a trois. In ``Only You,'' a woman who is obsessed with her hairdresser finds out that he delights in dressing up in her clothing. ``Silver Water'' depicts a family who must cope with the illness of their schizophrenic daughter. ``Sleepwalking'' portrays a moment of incest between a mother and stepson who comfort each other during a time of grief. Many of the stories feature the same characters and show the same family from different points of view and at different points in time.