In a small rural town in the 1930s, three friends — a farmer’s wife, a music teacher and adulteress, and a single huntswoman — drift away from one another as they grow older, choosing unexpected futures for themselves.

A man reflects on his complicated summers with his father.

A man tries to find the perfect birthday gift for a woman in his neighborhood and, in doing so, uncovers the roots of unhappiness.

On a long taxicab ride to Idaho, a man bonds with his driver.

One woman’s affair leads to a lifelong revelation.

A mother, upon helping a girl at a playground one day, contemplates the nature of her marriage and the daughter who came from it.