"One of our most honored writers of literary fiction."—Los Angeles Times

"[Neugeboren's] sentences, like Ted Williams' swing, give the illusion of ease, an illusion made possible only after the exercise of great craft and care."—Newsweek

Jay Neugeboren is an award-winning short story writer who has been applauded as one of the most distinguished writers of our time. With this, his fourth collection of short stories, he returns to the form that earned him the reputation as a "master storyteller."

From the secluded villages in the south of France, to the cattle crawl in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in South Africa, to the hard-knock adolescent streets of Brooklyn, Neugeboren examines the great mysteries and complexities that unsettle and comprise human relationships.

In works that are as memorable, engrossing, and exciting as they are gorgeously crafted, Neugeboren delivers on his reputation as one of our pre-eminent American writers.

Jay Neugeborenis the author of seventeen books, including two prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew,Before My Life Began), two award-winning books of nonfiction (Imagining Robert,Transforming Madness), and three collections of award-winning stories. His stories have appeared inThe Atlantic,Esquire,Virginia Quarterly Review,Best American Short Stories,The O. Henry Prize Stories,andPenguin Modern Stories. He is the only author to have won six consecutive Syndicated Fiction Prizes. He lives in New York City.