Amazing stories, you will not be disappointed. Read it. He did it without writing groups, this should be added to your reading group agenda.

I also will be reading incessantly on Friday to learn what becomes of Gramma, a woman so powerful and wise that she takes out insurance policies on men in the family. I'll read to see if she did, definitively, have anything to do with her husband's death. Again I'll experience the anticipation and suspense of crossing of the border with a big gulp left on the counter at the convenience store.

It is a haunting tale of cultures blending and retaining; an author balances tenderness to Dan with an exaggerated or exhilarating sense of power and strength as a man while reminding us of the fact that girls will marry up in families whenever possible.

Mazel tov.