These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of
language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
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The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver's masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. In the outlandishly dark
��amp Sundown��vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. ��ree Fruit for Young Widows��is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a
father to a son. ��ister Hills��chronicles the history of Israel's settlements from the eve of the Yom Kippur War through the present, a political fable constructed around the tale of two
mothers who strike a terrible bargain to save a child. Marking a return to two of Englander's classic themes, ��eep Show��and ��ow We Avenged the Blums��wrestle with sexual longing and
ingenuity in the face of adversity and peril. And ��verything I Know About My Family on My Mother's Side��is suffused with an intimacy and tenderness that break new ground for a writer who
seems constantly to be expanding the parameters of what he can achieve in the short form.
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Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander's work is a revelation.
