Katie Chase's Superbly Off-Kilter Take On Coming-Of-Age Stories
b'It\\u2019s a cliche that children are full of questions, but certain types of questioning \\u2014 far from the innocent realms of \\u201cwhy is the sky blue?\\u201d \\u2014 mark the end of childhood. Katie Chase, whose new book \\u201cMan and Wife\\u201d came out this week, has produced a short story collection that balances largely on the edge of that turning point.
\\u201cMan and Wife,\\u201d the title story, won the Pushcart Prize and was chosen as a Best American Short Story in 2008. Katie Chase sat down with State of Wonder\\u2019s April Baer last week to discuss the book and the larger forces that shape its characters\\u2019 lives \\u2014 forces we will all recognize well.'