Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions.

"Ortega-Medina's prose is elegant and potent throughout, with visceral passages bathed in lyricism." —Kirkus Reviews

For fans of Hanif Kureishi and Margaret Atwood, this collection of thirteen gripping and intriguing short stories are about sexuality, death, obsession, and religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, and often possessed of a dark humor, each story contains characters who are flawed individuals trying their best to make sense...