The narrator of a story by this author tells a truck driver "I want to smother" while feeling him leer at her through a car window.
This author created a character who didn't wear her wedding ring for two years after her husband got drunk and threw his ring into a peach orchard; she later reunites with her cheating husband, but the two are forced to move after Fat Linda comes home. The narrator of a story by this author tells a truck driver "I want to smother" while feeling him leer at her through a car window. In that story by this author, Claire is overcome with fear and attends the funeral of the girl her husband found dead in a (*) river. This author of "So Much Water So Close to Home" wrote about Frank Martin's "drying-out facility" in "Where I'm Calling From" and about two couples who drink gin around an ice bucket while discussing Mel's ex-wife Marjorie and Terri's abusive ex Ed, who shot himself. For 10 points, name this author of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
This author created a character who didn't wear her wedding ring for two years after her husband got drunk and threw his ring into a peach orchard; she later reunites with her cheating husband, but the two are forced to move after Fat Linda comes home.
Raymond Carver