This is an unusual format for a Richmond book, but good anyway. It's a group of four related short stories, followed by another group of related short stories set a few years later with the same people, followed by a group of four more entirely unrelated short stories. One of these last, about a father and grandfather testing the honor of the two young men by a series of envelopes, ranks as one of my top favorite short stories from younger years. It was nice to find it in its vintage form.