Ether: Seven Stories and a Novella

By Evgenia Citkowitz

Book Overview

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

All the characters in Evgenia Citkowitz's first collection of short fiction are connected by the quest for identity--some are poised at crossroads, while others teeter on the edge of a moral precipice. In "Leavers' Events," a teenage girl awaits exam results and has a sexual encounter with a teacher that she hopes will define her. In "Sunday's Child," a middle-aged actress evicts a homeless woman from her garden, precipitating a crisis of conscience. And in the title novella, "Ether," a blocked writer plagiarizes his own life with devastating consequences.

Unexpected and startlingly original, Citkowitz depicts her characters with a mordant humor and tenderness that never diminishes their complexity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312569351
• ISBN13: 9780312569358
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"