In the Mouth

…an American talent… -Stephen King Pollack writes about times of tragedy and transition insightfully, aware of their everyday quality and of their gravity. In the Mouth is a window onto the amazing tenderness and irrationality of human life. One story, The Bris, has been selected for The Best American Short-Stories 2008 (Edited by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor). Eileen Pollock writes with great acuity, humor, and intelligent resign-ation about the various ways family love is called upon and revealed. This book is terrific company. -Lorrie Moore
These are funny, rueful, wise stories, steeped in absurdity, pain, possibility -the work of a writer who has lived. -Gish Jen