Product Description: From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and irreverence, mining an exhilarating blend of skepticism and curiosity, compassion and candor, high and low culture...read more

A darkly humorous collection of short works about the faith struggles of disaffected Jewish youths includes 'The Living,' a hormonally charged teen-tour of Auschwitz, and 'Everything But,' a sexually frustrated housewife's regression to Bat Mitzvah-age antics. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.