The characters of The Worlds We Think We Know are swept up by forces beyond their control: war, adulthood, family—and their own emotions, as powerful as the sandstorm that gusts through these stories. In Ohio, a college student cruelly enlists the help of the boy who loves her to attract the attention of her own crush. In Israel, a young American woman visits an uncommunicative Holocaust survivor and falls in love with a soldier. And from an unnamed Eastern European country, a woman haunts the husband who left her behind for a new life in New York City.
The Worlds We Think We Know is a dazzling fiction debut—fiercely funny and entirely original.
"Outstanding . . . Set in locales including present-day Jerusalem, the permafrost region of Russia and the streets of Manhattan, Rosenfeld's best stories focus not only on loss, but on its aftermath: living in the presence of absence." —Haaretz
"Funny and poignant . . . The lush melancholy of this collection is bolstered by the characters' deep intelligence and wit . . . Jewish history is shredded through with displacement, and many of Rosenfeld's characters are caught in the position of a having a long cultural history and no sense of home." —Electric Literature
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- ISBN: 9781571319562
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- ISBN: 9781571319562
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- English
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