A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of 2012These eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination, show a celebrated short-story writer and novelist grappling with the great questions of modern life.
From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired by Raymond Carver s masterpiece, to Peep Show and How We Avenged the Blums, two stories that return to the author s classic themes of sexual longing and ingenuity in the face of adversity, these stories affirm Nathan Englander s place at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.