Michael Blumenthal

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...