After reading this book from cover to cover, you'd think Richard
Ford had it wrong. It's not a multitude of sins, it's just one
single sin --- adultery. The tales included within Ford's newest
short story collection revolve around that one major theme:
cheating on the one you "love." But, that one sin is the
compilation of a multitude of sins. Before they slept with the
person who was not their spouse, they told smaller lies and delved
into sins (working late, car trouble, mid-life crisis, in need of
something the partner couldn't give) that c