The Whitings

Whenever I read one of Josh Penzone’s stories, from a dusty corner of my brain, I hear Charlie Rich singing, “No one knows what goes on behind closed doors.” And so it is with “The Whitings.” Penzone opens the doors and unlocks the secrets of his characters’ hearts, exposing the double lives of neighbors, friends, spouses, parents, children—people who thought they knew each other so well, but man, oh man, were they wrong.

—Sara Pritchard, author of Crackpots and Help Wanted: Female