In her critically acclaimed debut story collection, Elisa Albert boldly illuminates an original cross section of disaffected young Jews. With wit, compassion, and a decidedly iconoclastic twenty-first-century attitude, in prose that is by turns hilarious and harrowing, Albert has created characters searching for acceptance, a happier view of the past, and above all the possibility of a future.Holidays, family gatherings, and rites of passage provide the backdrop for these ten provocative stories. From the death of a friendship in So Long to a sexually frustrated young mother's regression to bat mitzvah -- aged antics in Everything But, and culminating with the powerful and uproariously apropos finale of Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose, How This Night Is Different will excite, charm, and profoundly resonate with anyone who's ever felt ambivalent about his or her faith, culture, or place in the world.
- ISBN10 074329128X
- ISBN13 9780743291286
- Publish Date 1 February 2008 (first published 1 June 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Imprint Scribner
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English