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"Courageous and provocative, edgy and timeless. Put him alongside Singer, Carver and Munro" -- Colum McCann
"One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers" -- Dave Eggers
“Nathan Englander’s wisest, funniest, bravest, and most beautiful book. It overflows with revelations and gems.” -- Jonathan Safran Foer
"Certifiable masterpieces of contemporary short-story art.” -- Michael Chabon
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.
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 'Camp Sundown', vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. 'Free Fruit for Young Widows' is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a father to a son. 'Sister 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, 'Peep Show' and 'How We Avenged the Blums' wrestle with sexual longing and ingenuity in the face of adversity and peril. And 'Everything 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.
Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander’s work is a revelation.
Recommended by: Eva