Heidi Pitlor’s riveting new domestic novel, “The Daylight Marriage,’’ opens with an ugly marital spat. An unpaid energy bill settles like a spark on the tinder of deep discontents, and soon the ...

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Pitlor, 44, has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories collection since 2007. She holds a master's degree in creative writing from Emerson College in Massachusetts and is a former ...

Heidi Pitlor’s short fiction has been published in Ploughshares, and she is the author of the novel* The Birthdays*. She is a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin, where she oversees *The Best American ...

On a rainy summer weekend, the Miller clan gathers, for the first time in four years, at their summer house on an island off the coast of Maine to celebrate patriarch Joe's 75th birthday. Oldest son ...

How many relationships could stand up to public scrutiny? In Heidi Pitlor’s The Daylight Marriage, Hannah Hall and her husband, Lovell, are subject to just that when Hannah suddenly goes missing.