Sasha is the last of all of his friends to still have his baby teeth. So when one tooth becomes wiggly, he is excited, curious and also a little bit worried. After politely dismissing all efforts to help the tooth fall out, Sasha is astounded when he...
In this collection of short stories, twenty-two contributors write about the lives, joys and struggles of women. Broad in scope, Frictions II looks at the variety and complexity of women's experiences today. Issues of race, sexuality, age and clas...
On the day of the big storm, Jeanette goes off with her friends to make forts, build snowmen, and enjoy a snowball fight, forgetting all about her beloved cat, Kitty Doyle, who is sitting out in the snow, cold and wet....
Sara always wonders "What if this? What if that?" At first neither parent can see beyond Sara's dreamy facade. Caught up in their own struggles in Depression-era Winnipeg, Sara's parents can't always stop to answer her. Sara spins her questions into ...
From the shtetl to the New World, from failed revolutions in tsarist Russia to the Holocaust, these Yiddish tales illuminate a lost world from a woman’s distinctive perspective. For decades, stories by Yiddish women writers were available only t...
Sarah is the youngest of the three Levine sisters. At twenty-five, she is rudderless, caught in a paralysis which keeps her from seizing her own life.
When Sarah is fired from her Toronto job, a chance stay in Paris opens her up to new direction ...