In the fifteen stories collected in The Way It Is Now, girlhood, love, sexual initiation, motherhood, and middle age are played out in cauterizing dramas against a variety of background
Fiction by Sallie Bingham
The Touching Hand
Houghton Mifflin (1967) — Fiction
The Touching Hand includes the short novel that gives the book its name, as well as six short stories. In the title work, two children travel to England in the
After Such Knowledge
Houghton Mifflin (1960) — Fiction
As the only daughter of a worldly woman who married beneath her and regretted it, Mona is launched upon New York society to redeem her mother’s mistake. But the sudden