Deena Goldstone’s TELL ME ONE THING, a collection of stories in the spirit of works by writers Maile Meloy, Elizabeth Strout and Amy Bloom that compassionately deal with issues of family, the legacy of a difficult childhood, and the hope that so often springs unexpectedly in her character’s lives, united thematically by the various ways they learn to overcome grief and yet told with light, grace, and finally with hope at the end of their journeys to Nan A. Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).