Brisket for One

Here are thirteen stories, often simultaneously painfully poignant and devilishly humorous, whether grounded in the familiar, or dreamlike and other-worldly, that tell of the human condition, our all-too-frequent bouts of loneliness and dislocation, and our attempts at survival and resilience. After all, as Malamud also wrote, "Suffering is what brings us toward happiness" [The Natural (1952), p. 152]. Taking up where she left off with Shame, Iris has lined up her third installment of mostl...