Monday, September 22
7:30 pm
Eileen Pollack
In the Mouth: Stories and Novellas
$9, Discounted Member Price $6

In four gripping stories and two novellas, In the Mouth focuses on family relationships, especially those between fathers and their daughters. Pollack depicts the lives of a generation of Jewish men who survived the Depression and World War II and worked hard to raise families. In settings ranging from Florida to her native Catskills, Pollack explores her characters’ passions, morals and secrets, affectionately portraying the lives of Jews in America today. One story, The Bris, has been selected for The Best American Short-Stories 2008. These emotionally wise and wryly funny stories will remind us all to celebrate our families—in spite of, and because of, their little quirks.

“An American talent”
-Stephen King

Eileen Pollack received her BS in physics from Yale University and earned her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship. Her previous work includes a collection of short fiction, The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories; the novel Paradise, New York; and a work of creative nonfiction, Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, a 2003 WILLA finalist award winner. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, SubTropics, Agni and New England Review.

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