<div>A profoundly funny&mdash;and comically profound&mdash;story collection from one of the most original voices in contemporary American fiction When his dying psychiatrist gives him the tapes to thirty years&rsquo; worth of therapy sessions, what else can Michael Goldberg do but listen? It is the story of his life, after all&mdash;never mind the fact that it&rsquo;s narrated by a younger version of himself who has no idea what&rsquo;s going to happen next. Besides, as a man of letters best known for &ldquo;My Mother Is Not Living,&rdquo; the story that earned him a reputation as &ldquo;the Jewish writer who hated his mother more than any other Jewish writer,&rdquo; Michael has never been especially concerned with the niceties of literary convention. What he really wants, what he&rsquo;s been looking for from New York to Hollywood and back again&mdash;from doomed high school romances to a late marriage begun in sin and overshadowed by tragedy, from boyhood days playing stickball in the streets of Queens to middle-aged afternoons behind a desk at the activist organization Jewish Punchers, sorting masses of data into one of two files: &ldquo;Good for the Jews&rdquo; or &ldquo;Bad for the Jews&rdquo;&mdash;are answers. To life&rsquo;s great mysteries, sure, but mainly to the one question that always seems to be waiting for him, wherever he goes: How did I end up here? What Michael discovers in his therapist&rsquo;s tapes, and what David Evanier so masterfully portrays in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection, is a life that is no less inevitable for being unplanned, and no less extraordinary for being average. </div>

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The Great Kisser

<div>Signature David Evanier&mdash;a story collection so wickedly funny and painfully honest you won&rsquo;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&mdash;&ldquo;I thought there was a chance you&rsquo;d have a bestseller sometime. I guess that&rsquo;s dead, huh?&rdquo;&mdash;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 regularly subjected to the musings of Luther, his cynical coworker: &ldquo;My experience has always been that kids are cannibals and killers.&rdquo; Not even the weekly volunteer visits he and his wife, Susan, make to an elderly Jewish woman&rsquo;s home give Bruce the chance to stitch himself back together again&mdash;every trip is marred by another wildly inappropriate and combative scene between the quarrelsome eighty-four-year-old and her African American caretakers. With nowhere safe to turn, what is Bruce to do? His therapist wants him to join a dating club, but there is only one real answer: Keep living, because the future&mdash;fingers crossed&mdash;is almost guaranteed to be better than the past. And, just as important, keep laughing. Thankfully, David Evanier is here to make the laughter part as easy as reading The One-Star Jew. </div>

The One-Star Jew

<div>A brilliant tragicomedy based on the most infamous espionage trial of the twentieth century Thirty years after they walked hand in hand to the electric chair, sentenced to die for giving the gift of the atom bomb to the Soviet Union, Solomon and Dolores Rubell are the targets of a new investigation&mdash;conducted not by the FBI, or some paranoid Senate subcommittee, but by Gerald Lerner, boyhood Communist and author of such classic chronicles of the American Jewish experience as Hot Pastrami Sandwich and Kosher and Topless. What does Gerald hope to find, all these years later, by placing ads in the Jewish Daily Forward and Screw seeking former Soviet spies willing to chat? The short answer: His sanity. With a gleam in its eye and tenderness in its heart, David Evanier&rsquo;s irreverent and incisive novel peers into one of the darkest chapters in American history&mdash;the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. Because, as Suzie Sizzle&mdash;great-niece of Dolly and Solly Rubell and star of a &ldquo;goodly number&rdquo; of hardcore films&mdash;explains to Gerald, this is not really a story about death, despite its gloomy ending. It is a story about love&mdash;the true love two proud Jewish underdogs had for each other, and the misguided love an entire generation of American leftists had for a political system whose grand promises masked terrible, irreconcilable truths. They say love will make you do crazy things. So, too, will Communism. </div>

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