The island dwellers
Subtitle: stories
By: Jen Silverman
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780399591495
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: In this debut short-story collection a passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead body on a drug dealer's floor leads to the strangest first date ever. In this razor-sharp debut collection, Jen Silverman delivers eleven interconnected stories that take place in expat bars, artist colonies, train stations, and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan.
Table of contents: title: Girl Canadian shipwreck --; title: Pretoria --; title: A great history of American mistakes --; title: Maria of the grapes --; title: White people --; title: The safest place in the world --; title: Maureen --; title: Mamushi --; title: Surveillance --; title: The wolf --; title: The pike.