I am no one you know

'I Am No One You Know' contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In 'Fire,' a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In 'Curly Red,' a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In 'The Girl with the Blackened Eye,' selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in 'Three Girls,' two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956.