Anteaters Don’t Dream

These stories’ protagonists are all technically adults, but their voices and concerns are as varied as their ages, from 14 to 84: there’s a grown daughter, wrestling with guilt over her aging mother’s placement in a nursing home; there’s a young teenager remembering his dead sister and desperate to find ways to keep those memories alive; there’s a middle-aged woman who refuses to let menopause strangle her passion; and an upwardly mobile professional who, in the title story, finds his career short-circuited by a female competitor.