I started reading A.M. Homes twenty years ago. Wild and funny, questioning and true, she is a writer to go travelling with on the journey called life.”—Jeanette Winterson, New York Times bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?DAYS OF AWE Richard goes outside, stands with his feet on the edge of the hole—it is definitely deeper than it was two hours ago. The horse looks up.

A.M. Homes skillfully circles and tugs at the question of what it means to live in flawed, fragile, hungry human bodies . . . DAYS OF AWE is sliced through with Homes’s dark humor . . . one wants to read passages of a Homes story aloud because they are so fine . . . DAYS OF AWE feels like the part of the day when the sun is about to go down and the light is brighter while the shadows are darker. Everything has a sharp edge, is strikingly beautiful and suddenly also a little menacing.”—Ramona Ausubel, The New York Times Book ReviewFor every time I started to think this book was just lightly entertaining there would come a scene so real and brutal it would hurt a bit. Broken child-parent relationships. Exes whose scent still lingers. Women sobbing in the produce section of a supermarket. The horse got into the hole, he must know how to get out of the hole." Richard goes to the window. Now there's a coyote standing at the edge of the hole, or at least he thinks it's a coyote. It's standing at the edge of the hole menacing the horse, and the horse is frightened.

These stories are remarkable. They are awesomely well-written. In the sense of arousing fear and wonder in the reader they entertain, but what they principally bring us is a sense of recognition . . . Here are all the things that even today, even in our frank outspoken times, we don’t talk about. We think of them punishingly in sleepless nights.” —Ruth Rendell They're not always helpful. This is a weird idea, but I think we should ask the guy at the house up the hill." The movie star laughs. "I'll tell you a secret," he says. "But you have to swear not to tell anyone." Richard isn't ready either; he's nervous, excited, almost overwhelmed, it's too much stimulation—maybe the vet should give him a little shot as well.

Need Help?

Just doing some reading, let's go." Together they walk down the hill. By now the sun is entirely up, it's a beautiful day. The sky is blue and clear, the air crisp. It is as though the movie star has changed the lighting, changed the mood. Richard seems to have gone through a seismic shift towards acceptance. Life throws stuff at him, it’s dealt with, without him dealing with it. We could all take a leaf out of his book – who knows, we may make a few new friends, or try a new class, or let life go on around us and not try and control outcomes. See what happens perhaps!!!