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Winner of the 2004 Winship/PEN New England Award
Winner of the 2004 Edward Lewis Wallant Award for
Jewish Fiction
A Selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Series
From the publisher:
Taking its title from the Yiddish proverb "Even an hour in paradise is
worthwhile,"
this startling debut features ten outstandingly original and prize-winning
stories.
Contemporary and fresh, these are stories that mine the Jewish tradition with
an edge. Provocative and off-beat, in settings from Jerusalem to Queens,
from the outskirts of
gives us characters who soldier on, despite the odds, in search of divine
and
human connection.
By turns poignant and comic,
unflinching and compassionate—with a dose of fabulist
daring—the ten stories in An Hour in Paradise explore the dangers and
unforeseen
rewards of our most fundamental longings.
"Wonderfully nuanced stories...one wants to shout out the word that
a new, very talented
Jewish-American writer has arrived...`An Hour in
Stories in An Hour in
Lawrence Foundation Award, 2003
Moment Magazine Short Story Contest, Finalist. 2002
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction,
Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers,
Moment Magazine Short Story Contest, Finalist. 2001
Dora Teitelboim Jewish Writing Competition, Finalist.
2001
Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction,