Fire Year (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction)

Candid, cunning, brave, and wickedly funny,” these stories “will make you remember the first time you read Philip Roth” (Salvatore Scibona).

Set it the Jewish communities of Georgia—from the 1920s to the present day—this Mary McCarthy Prize–winning collection investigates the crossroads of desire and religion in seven “funny, fearless outsiders’ tales .

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of sexual coming-of-age and temptation” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).