The stories in That's True of Everybody are tales of ordinary, mostly blue-collar middle Americans, each of whom is leading a life of often silent, often noisy desperation. Some are without hope. Some are desperately trying to keep afloat with varying degrees of success. The settings, too, are ordinary: a bowling alley, a lawn-mowing business, a drive-in theater. But the themes are startlingly familiar and unmistakably American. A father and bowling alley owner, Harry Kreevitch, searches for his missing "lane girl" and navigates the uncertain terrain of father-daughter relationships. A fourteen-year-old girl who has a mother with a penchant for leaving, manages her dad's finances and witnesses his awkward affair with their next door neighbor. A tall boy from the west side of town meets a pudgy, moon-faced girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Each story stands alone, and yet the whole has a magic all its own. The stories in this collection have previously appeared in the follo