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Fanny Howe, Economics

Largely set in Boston, Fanny Howe's Economics examines with an unwavering eye the necessary errors of 1960s liberalism and consequences of cold war politics. A white liberal couple adopts a black child with troubling results; two old friends from the Kennedy campaign meet years later to discover how different their lives have become; a separated working-class couple drives to the Cape in order to collect the prize from an instant lotto game. In each story, love is eroded by class expectations and financial pressures, by racial tensions and ideological hypocrisies. As a result, Economics offers a raw portrait of the last three decades that is at once comic and devastating.

Fanny Howe has written several novels and collections of poems. Her most recent novel, Indivisible, was published by Semiotexte/MIT Press. Sun & Moon Press published three of her short novels, and University of California Press published her Selected Poems in 2000. She now lives in Massachusetts where she originally wrote the stories in this collection, most of them during the 1970s and 1980s.