The One-Star Jew: Stories

Signature David Evanier—a story collection so wickedly funny and painfully honest you won't know whether to laugh, cry, or curl up in a ball and moan with delight

New York writer Bruce Orav is crumbling. Every time his father speaks—"I thought there was a chance you'd have a bestseller sometime. I guess that's dead, huh?"—Bruce loses another piece of himself. The same thing happens at the Jewish philanthropic organization where he earns a steady, if not exactly generous, paycheck and is ...