Stephen Schottenfeld, associate professor of English at the University of Rochester, is the author of Bluff City Pawn. His stories have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the New England Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
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Everything you want in a novel: exquisitely imagined, big-hearted, full of grace, with unforgettable characters you will laugh with, cry with, and root for. Schottenfeld has given us a beautiful story for our times-a room you will want to settle in and think of as home." - Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth "A tightly calibrated tale of isolation and connection. As he proved in his first novel, Stephen Schottenfeld writes about work-the dailiness of it, the paycheck of it, the way it slowly and inevitably shapes a life-with an authority few contemporary novelists can match. This is realistic fiction that manages to depict the hopes and the failings, the self-deception and the grace, of recognizable human characters-our fellow citizens-with a vividness that both illuminates and elevates, perhaps even unites." - Alice McDermott, author of The Ninth Hour "A marvel-a book that somehow manages to be both tense and comforting, brainy and plainspoken. A book that is calm on the surface but underneath there is a strong current of mystery. Is the narrator what he seems? Is the widow? Are we to trust either of them? Are we to trust anyone, even-or especially-ourselves? This is a wonderful book, full of pain and pleasure, despair and hope-full of life, in other words." - Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?