A Few Streaks of Bright Life In a Doggedly Desperate Place
There Are Jews in My House , by Lara Vapnyar. Pantheon, 149 pages, $17.95.
Boiled potatoes in the first sentence, a beige oil cloth in the second. Yes, friends, we are in the much-feared terrain of émigré lit-a darkly remembered world where wet shoes stuffed with newspaper never quite manage to dry before they’re put Read More
