The island dwellers : stories

Author

Jen Silverman

Call Number

• FICTION SILV (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Random House, [2018]

Physical Description

259 pages ; 25 cm

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.

Contents

• 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.