Publisher's Synopsis
"Hearts Like Lemons in Fists of Dew" and "Winter Burial" (written by a mortician) lead off this collection of the best unpublished stories by new writers. From "Circus": After the Tbilisi circus school closed, Shukhia looked for work until the night her father brought home a graying bus driver who'd worked in a Mercedes plant in Germany. "Meet your rich husband," he said. They drank araki and toasted the advantages of a seventeen-year-old wife, while she and her mother served lamb and pilaf. Judges previous volumes include Louise Erdrich, Tim O'Brien, Joyce Carol Oates, and Raymond Carver.
