In a story by this author, a woman returns from a movie to find her brother passed out drunk beside her son taking a bath. A photojournalist dies in a tsunami in this author’s story “Going Ashore,” which appears in a collection by this author (10[1])titled for a phrase from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Custom-House.” A 103-year-old woman created by this author breaks her hip after falling off a bench and exclaims “She’s a perfect lady!” upon meeting a former tenant’s wife. In that story by this author, the protagonist is forced to praise America’s landing on the moon as “Splendid.” This author of Unaccustomed Earth wrote a story in which Rohin defines the title word as “loving someone you don’t know.” For 10 points, name this author who included “Sexy” (10[1])in her collection Interpreter of Maladies. ■END■