Beginning ~ with an unwelcome lecture

"They're in our house maybe ten minutes and already Mark's lecturing us on the Israeli occupation.  Mark and Lauren live in Jerusalem, and people from there think it gives them the right."

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank ~ by Nathan Englander, 2012, short stories

• "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank"
• "Sister Hills"
• "How We Avenged the Blums"
• "Peep Show"
• "Everything I Know About My Family On My Mother's Side"
• "Camp Sundown"
• "The Reader"
• "Free Fruit for Young Widows"

Gilion at Rose City Reader hosts Book Beginnings on Fridays.  Click here for today's Mister Linky.