Publisher Description
A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review
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About Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander’s short fiction
has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, and numerous anthologies,
including The Best American Short Stories
and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is
the author of the novel The Ministry of
Special Cases and the story collection For
the Relief of Unbearable Urges, which earned him a PEN/Malamud Award and
the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
About Arthur Morey
Arthur Morey has won three AudioFile Magazine “Best Of” Awards, and his work has garnered numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed him as a finalist for two Audie Awards. He has acted in a number of productions, both off Broadway in New York and off Loop in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has won awards for his fiction and drama, worked as an editor with several book publishers, and taught literature and writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.