Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son is autistic, but if we told her, she wouldn’t listen, because she doesn’t want to know -- until at last his behavior becomes so strange that even she can’t ignore it. Mimi inhabits a world nearly as isolating...
Set in the grungy New York City of the 1970s and ‘80s, these stories convey a sense of the enchantment that lurks on the flip side of every moment, as if the meaning of life were hidden within the static being blasted out of the loudspeakers on a s...