Or so I'm beginning to believe. Michael Parker's well-reviewed If You Want Me to Stay snags another rave, this one from The New York Times, whose reviewer calls it "exquisite but deadly." Having bought my copy in October, I was planning to read it now that the teaching semester is over, but these comments, combined with Fred Chappell's blurb on the back cover declaring it "the one that takes the skin off," I'm beginning to wonder if it'll bite me.