Brownies

Funny, immersive, tragic, and formally impressive—that final moment that twists the knife! the slow unfurling of the narrator’s identity in the group!—this story from Packer’s first collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, has become a modern classic, and it’s just as effective now as it was when it was first published 20 years ago. If you haven’t read it, the less said the better, so just go on ahead—