Today is not your day
Subtitle: stories
By: Marian Thurm
Publisher: SixOneSeven Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780983150558
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social life and customs; Concentration camps; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Manners and customs; Amerikanisches Englisch; Erzählung; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Fiction
Other titles: Today isn't your day
Description: With her fourth collection, acclaimed short story writer Marian Thurm brings her darkly comic sense of humor to a memorable set of new characters-every one of whom is brought to vivid life under her sharply observant but always compassionate gaze. A divorcee is hit on by her philandering ex whose new wife is stricken with cancer. An untimely shattered knee complicates a man's decision to dump his fiancee. A grieving widow is burdened by her daughter's relationship troubles. A teenaged cancer survivor convinces her friends to go on a quest in search of her older crush. A Jewish man is shocked by his Catholic girlfriend's reaction to visiting Auschwitz. Today is Not Your Day is Thurm at her best, capturing those breathtaking moments where life upends but also becomes painfully clear.
Table of contents: title: What went on --; title: Today is not your day --; title: Afterlife --; title: M.I.A. --; title: Great Jones Street --; title: Manicure --; title: Loved one --; title: Sparkle --; title: Hasta Luego --; title: The snack bar at Auschwitz --; title: Kosta.