A collection of stories that fuses the sensibilities of Gabriel Garcia Marque, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Henry James and Philip Roth Set in venues as diverse as Israel, Hungary, Paris, Cambridge and, even, Austin, Texas A diverse set of characters, including a narrator who marries a French wife and discovers there is more to a cross-cultural marriage than the cinema suggests and a married older woman who seduces, first, a psychologically fragile adolescent boy and then, in quick succession, his handsome and athletic younger brother. Author is an accomplished poet, translator, nonfiction and fiction writer Author had NEA Fellowship and numerous other literary awards, including the Isabella Gardner Poetry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Fiction, judged by Elie Wiesel and Thomas Keneally
