Zora Hurston had a reverence for language, treating words as though they were a cherished gift from God. So why was the American author buried in a pauper’s, unmarked grave?
Doris Abernathy’s boyfriend is cheating on her. So why does she seek advice from Nathan Rosenblatt, a Hassidic Jew who works in the local supermarket and talks in parables?
Max Tittlebaum, a dedicated English teacher, may lose his job due a relationship with a two-hundred year-old French prostitute.
Elliot Slotnick is dating Marilyn Moneghan, his chiropractor’s assistant. He’s a neurotic Jew and nerdy academic; she is a devout Catholic, who believes in divine intervention and watches Wheel of Fortune reruns on late-night television.
Fourteen year-old Cheryl Oliphant’s best friend is a four-foot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorced. On the plus side, Cheryl just met Teddy Rasmussen who offered her a sympathetic ear.
Most people imagine Donny Cantrell a modern-day Don Juan, a devil-may-care Lothario, but first impressions can be deceiving if not dead wrong.
Janet Goodwin, the creative writing instructor, resents Charlie Raffles for several reasons: Charlie’s refusal to submit his own writing for literary critique; the black man is conspicuously smarter than her.
Ernie Levinson wants to marry Shifrah Fienberg, but the Israeli woman’s background prior to coming to work at Levinson's Whole Food Market remains an impenetrable mystery.
As though the topic makes for polite dinner conversation, eight year old Benjamin Carter announces that Mr. Jacobson, the elderly widow, who lives on Bickford street, is a weirdo.
Mrs. Chowdhary named her youngest daughter after Saint Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus. Unfortunately, Terry has more in common with Attila the Hun than her nineteenth century namesake.
Not unlike her marriage and personal life, Sylvia Mandelstam’s literary symposium in Moscow is an unmitigated fiasco.
Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his fractured life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain.
Morris Weinstein needs an apprentice at his woodworking business. Seventeen year-old Salina Smithers just finishing high school and wouldn't know a table saw from a table wine.
Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.
Amina sees a doctor for retinal occlusion, where a perfectly clear sky is cluttered with gray smudges and filaments that aren’t really there. Now she must confront an equally troublesome vision loss.
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