
Week 1

Part 3.
In no particular hurry, Yosl trudged over to find out what his son was squawking about this time.
Week 2

Part 1.
He emerged from the cottage just as Casimir, a sooty-eyed Polish porter with hair like thatch…

Part 4.
Meanwhile he starved, though occasionally some sympathetic old baba yaga would scuttle forth…
Week 3

Part 3.
But the truth was that, while the marital mattress sagged between its creaking slats to the earthen floor…
Week 4
Week 5

Part 1.
Bernie, too, was greatly relieved, feeling that he now had a license to continue his sub rosa relationship…

Part 2.
Nothing in his listless history (or anyone else’s he knew of) had prepared him for such an event…

Part 3.
Such questions and a score of others Bernie was hard put to answer; the permissiveness of his culture…
Week 6

Part 1.
But having admitted that televised fare fell short of the spiritual reaches of his once glorious meditative flights…

Part 2.
Never more than a mediocre student, unmotivated and lazy, Bernie was becoming daily more driven…
Week 7
Week 8

Part 2.
Though her mama’s own manifest determination to do the same made her reasoning seem somehow redundant…

Part 3.
Her first outing after having risen from her convalescent cot was to attend her mother’s funeral.
Week 9
Week 10

Part 1.
You couldn’t have called it eavesdropping, since Bernie was standing by the open French doors…

Part 4.
The low-ceilinged room on the other side, most likely a former dance studio, was surrounded by mirrors.
About the Author
Steve Stern, winner of the National Jewish Book award, is the author of several previous novels and novellas. He teaches at Skidmore College in upstate New York.
About the Illustrator
Paul Rogers studied at Art Center College in Pasadena, where he now teaches. He has illustrated two books for children and their parents, Jazz ABZ by Wynton Marsalis and Forever Young by Bob Dylan.
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