Girl Canadian shipwreck -- Pretoria -- A great history of American mistakes -- Maria of the grapes -- White people -- The safest place in the world -- Maureen -- Mamushi -- Surveillance -- The wolf -- The pike.
Summary
In this debut short-story collection a passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead body on a drug dealer's floor leads to the strangest first date ever. In this razor-sharp debut collection, Jen Silverman delivers eleven interconnected stories that take place in expat bars, artist colonies, train stations, and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan.
