The collected stories of an award-winning author who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Chekhov "The best short story writer in the world" Susan Hill Tenderly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captured life on the page like no one else. Spanning forty years of writing, moving from tsarist Russia to the coast of Maine, from Jerusalem to Massachusetts, these astonishing stories revea[Bokinfo]