Mendocino and Other Stories

Fiction Satire

Author: Ann Packer

With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men–wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers–who discover that life’s greatest surprises may be found in that which is most familiar.In the title story, on the anniversary of their father’s suicide a young woman discovers that her….Read More

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