In The Company of Strangers (Talonbooks) by Mary Meigs remains one of the best, if not the very best, book(s) of the decade. If you read nothing else this year, read this one.
PRESS 1 IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THE BIG BANG.
Review of "The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories" edited and translated by Jay Rubin.
(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).
