Moses supposes

Few writers have been as enthusiastically hailed as was Ellen Currie when her short fiction first appeared in The New Yorker and other publications in the late 1950s. Twenty-five years later, her first novel, Available Light, appeared - and, as critics and readers were quick to assert, was well worth the wait. With Moses Supposes, Currie renews her reputation as a peerless chronicler of the free-floating malice and unintended comedy of domestic life. In the title story, a young newlywed's unexpected pregnancy makes her marriage suddenly, unbearably real. In "The Solution to Canned Peas," a…