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 Susan Denaker
Susan Denaker is an actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator. Her extensive theater credits include numerous plays in the West End of London, national tours, many English rep companies, including a season with Alan Ayckbourn’s company in Scarborough. In the US, she has appeared in Our Town and Sweet Bird of Youth at the La Jolla Playhouse and Breaking Legs at the Westport Playhouse.