Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny

In author Heiny's latest collection, the reader gets up close and personal with single women, mothers, daughters, wives, and husbands. My favorite stories include "Twist and Shout," about a woman who comes to spend time with her elderly father after he's eaten his hearing aid because he thought it was a cashew, and "CobRa," which details a husband's frustration with his wife after she goes on a Marie Kondo spree, getting rid of loads of their possessions. Another standout for me is "561," in which a second wife who caused her husband's first marriage to break up now has to help the first wife move out her home.