Book description
Tanya Irene Schwartz narrates her hilarious and conflicting desires
through the musical and psychological structure of the fugue. Jewish
law, world records, 9/11, Barbies, Viagra, sex, and sisters: these are
the surprising sites of Tanya's transformation from girl to woman.
These short, intertwined stories explore religion, sex, and school,
capturing the cadences and rhythms that mark our journey from
adolescence to adulthood. Tanya's vivid, humorous voice grants us a
rare but strangely familiar view of what happens when we almost touch
the divine. JENNIFER NATALYA FINK is the award-winning author of the
novel Burn (Suspect Thoughts), which was nominated for The National
Jewish Book Award, and V (Suspect Thoughts), for which she won The
Virginia Healey Award at Georgetown University and was nominated for the
National Book Award, and, most recently, The Mikvah Queen (Rebel Satori
Press 2010), which won the Dana Award for the Novel and finished as a
semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Stories from her
story collection 13 Fugues (forthcoming Dark Coast Press, 2011) won or
were finalists in: the Georgetown Review Fiction Award (winner),
Glimmer Train Short Fiction Award (finalist), Writer's Digest Fiction
Award (2nd place), and Story Magazine's Naked Fiction Contest (2nd
place).
