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Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.
After her husband's death, Ginny Gillespie travels with his ashes to Paris, where she meets and falls in love with Roland Keppi, a strange, visionary man without a country. But when Roland is deported to a German camp for people without identity papers, their dreamlike affair is disrupted.
Young Danny Meyer's bubble-like existence in paradisal Madison is broken when his father is stricken with illness. The family is forced to move to Milwaukee where they struggle at the brink of poverty. Here, Danny must accept the responsibilities of manhood while still struggling with adolescence.
This collection of stories offers a fresh perspective on current issues of homosexuality and anti-Semitism and lends a voice to those experiencing growing pains and self-discovery.
Matt Glassman builds a relationship with the one person, his grandmother, who might know the truth about his grandfather's disappearance. She's remained stubbornly reticent on the topic all these years, but when a familiar old man shows up at Glassman's office he thinks he may finally get some answers.
Glimmering Girls tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression. Doing the unthinkable, the three move off campus to live in a house with three men. There the young women's rebellion against expectations deepens, and they begin the real-world education of pursuing their dreams.
The stories collected in This Is Not the Tropics come from the geographic center of a divided nation, and its protagonists evoke a split personality - one half submerged in America's own diehard mythology, the other half searching to escape tradition.
Hannah inherits her uncle's rundown resort and heads to the northwoods to sell the business. The only interested buyer is Ingold, a mining company. Trapped in a dispute between Ingold and Uncle Hal's friends, she reluctantly operates the resort and encounters the inevitability of change, in herself and in the nostalgic landscape of the deep North.
A fiction in which Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town.
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