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“If you’re interested in the way we live now, read these funny, destabilizing, and superbly crafted stories.”–Edmund White

In this debut collection ofeight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honestyand compassion with hilarious dialogue. With “ONJ.com,” a young woman inadvertising decides she wants a gay man in her life, but the good-looking and fast-talking gay coworker she meets isn’t as pleasant and “fun” asshe had hoped. In “Dunford,” a lonely, aging architect with asuppressed fascination for female escorts decides impulsively to takethe opportunity of his wife’s absence to set up a date. Sadly forDunford, he realizes too late that his escort doesn’t share his penchantfor masturbation in car washes. And “Nightwalking” centers on awoman sleepwalker whose mother’s death frames the occasion for a rockyfamily reunion. You Are Not the One marks the auspicious arrival of anexciting new talent.