You Should Pity Us Instead

“From the absurdly comic to the acutely moving”—eleven fearless stories of love, friendship, faith and family under siege (The New York Times Book Review).

Stretching from 19th century Ellis Island to 21st century Gaza and suburban Ohio,
“these 11 stories, each ambitious in scope, drop us into one nerve-racking situation after another . . . inhabiting a wide range of voices” (The San Francisco Chronicle).

In “Coyote” a mother’s need to protect her toddler spirals into a dangerous obsessio...