(From the publisher) Every story in Frederick Busch's collection of short fiction Don't Tell Anyone is about secrets. There are different kinds: people hiding a troubled past or a current problem, some denying reality, and others simply ignorant of what the rest of the world seems to know.

The parents and children in these stories are driven to speak by the hungers of love and the fear of time. Tender, funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Busch captures our need to connect, the failures that make us human, and the triumphs that make us splendid.

In "Heads" a mother is haunted by her own past when her daughter is accused of a murder. In "Malvasia" a daughter gives her bereaved father the gift to go on living. A father suffers over his inability to save his grown son from heartbreak in "Passengers." "The Joy of Cooking" is a tour de force about a failed marriage.

About the author

	© John Hubbard

Frederick Busch is the author of The Night Inspector, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.

He is the Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.

Books by Frederick Busch
• A Memory of War (W .W. Norton, 2003)
• Don't Tell Anyone (W .W. Norton, 2000)
• The Night Inspector (Ballantine Books, 1999)
• Harry and Catherine (W .W. Norton, 2000)
• Letters to a Fiction Writer (W .W. Norton, 2000)