A series of deeply humorous tales culled from the pages of The New Yorker magazine follows a beguiling photographer as she travels through one absurd situation after another in her quest to photograph the ponds of Nantucket. Reprint. ...

There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection Do the Windows ...