Description
In eight unforgettable stories, an array of robust Brooklyn characters confront pulsing conflicts and life-altering choices.
- Four teenage friends risk their lives in devotion to courageous adventure in and around New York City.
- An elderly Brooklyn writer, paralyzed by loneliness and depression, mourns lost love and struggles for the will to write his one last novel.
- An honest, successful woman falls in love with a charming ne’er-do-well—an inveterate gambler and gigolo—and learns a bitter lesson.
- God appears to Shlomo Weinberg, a pathetic nebbish, and instructs him to initiate a new religion…but with a terrifying caveat: the founder of a successful religion must be killed by the Jews.
These poignant, potent stories, and four others, explore the role of daring in human life—the power and possible limits of free will—the critical distinction between charm and character—the madness of religious fervor…and other principles central to our well-being and happiness.
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