Fork in the Heart

A self-absorbed shrink is haunted by a childhood crime.(Note: Fork in the Heart is a short story. It is also available in the author's 10-story collection, Daggyland #2.)* * * Some kids shoplift from strangers. Others just boost from the ones they love.When he was just a kid, Toby committed a single act that sentenced him to a life of therapy.Every day, inside four tight walls, he relives his crime again and again.Not with a shrink. It's worse than that: he is the shrink.Like Cheever gone from bad to worse, crime writer D'Agnese gives us a troubling story of sins that go unpunished but not unforgotten.* * *D'Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books. —Bookviews