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Fruit of the Month

Abby Frucht. Graywolf Press, $9.95 (167pp) ISBN 978-1-55597-145-8

This 1987 winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award contains 12 stories that focus on contemporary Americans: their fragile relationships, their interest in activism and their experiences with rape, drugs and homosexuality . ``Frucht is a talented young writer, and though her stories sometimes are muffled by ambiguities, their resonances will linger in the reader's mind,'' said PW. (May)