A collection of stories by a young American writer. They are centred around the Orthodox Jewish community and span the Jewish experience from the Holocaust and Stalin's Russia to modern-day New York and Jerusalem.

Accomplished and brave, enigmatic and moving, the stories that make up this confident debut share the flavour of some of the best Jewish-American writers. But Englander has a voice all of his own, by turns comic and tragic and always profound, in these episodes of Jewish life from Stalin's Russia to present-day New York and Israel. (Kirkus UK)