Fresh Complaint: Stories

The first collection of short fiction from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.

Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American. The stories in Fresh Complaint explore equally rich­­—and intriguing­­—territory.

Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’...