ISBN: 1889330833 9781889330839

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 213

<p>"These beautiful stories freeze the sweep of the hands of the clock, they stop the beat of your heart, with the precision of their language and their generous emotion."--Frederick Busch</p> <p>Linked stories follow a Jewish-American family across several generations. Clara comes from a restrained, secretive family lending the book a taut narrative tension. The big secret--her husband's adultery during World War II--is not revealed until the last story. Sandor's prose is quiet, moving, psychologically acute.</p> <p><b>Marjorie Sandor</b> is the author of <i>The Night Gardener</i> (Lyons) and <i>A Night of Music</i> (Ecco). Her fiction has been anthologized in <i>Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize XIII</i>, and <i>The Best of Beacon</i>. She teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis.</p>