Please Come Back to Me: Stories and a Novella by Jessica Treadway, Jessica Treadway

Please Come Back To Me is another remarkable collection by an author the New York Times has called a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth.

In The Nurse and the Black Lagoon a woman tries to understand why her teenage son has been accused of a disturbing crime. In Testimony an adult daughter visiting her father does everything she can to keep herself from remembering what she believes she cannot bear. A man returns to his hometown in Dear Nicole to face the realization that he married the wrong woman out of misplaced guilt. Oregon portrays the internal struggle of a woman who, having years ago betrayed a secret entrusted to her by her best friend, is tempted to repeat the mistake with the same friends daughter. And in the collections novella, Please Come Back To Me, a young widow seeks faith and comfort--in both natural and supernatural realms--after her husbands death leaves her alone to care for their infant son.

On the surface, Jessica Treadways stories offer realistic portrayals of people in situations that make them question their roles as family members, their ability to do the right thing, and even their sanity. But Treadways psychic landscapes are tinged with a sense of the surreal, inviting readers to recognize--as her characters do--that very little is actually as it seems.