Selected Short Stories

Alan at the Kirschbergs'
A consummate wanderer, his mysterious tingling, and the people who take him in.
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The Lobster Mafia Story
Murder, marriage, miscarriages, and a girl who likes chocolate chip cookies. Pushcart Prize winner and Boston's 2012 One City One Story selection

Lotto
A small city, a strange friendship, dirty magazines, old love. Pushcart Prize winner
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Book Review
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
A Call to Hands
Speaking Volumes: On Aharon Appelfeld
Are You My Mother? On Motherly Abandonment in Literature
Confessions of an Inner Beauty
Jewish Mail-Order Brides on the American Frontier
The Three-Month Itch
Book Review:
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Book Review:
Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg