{"product_id":"how-this-night-is-different-stories-paperback","title":"How This Night Is Different: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElisa Albert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her critically acclaimed debut story collection, Elisa Albert boldly illuminates an original cross section of disaffected young Jews. With wit, compassion, and a decidedly iconoclastic twenty-first-century attitude, in prose that is by turns hilarious and harrowing, Albert has created characters searching for acceptance, a happier view of the past, and above all the possibility of a future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Holidays, family gatherings, and rites of passage provide the backdrop for these ten provocative stories. From the death of a friendship in \"So Long\" to a sexually frustrated young mother's regression to bat mitzvah -- aged antics in \"Everything But,\" and culminating with the powerful and uproariously apropos finale of \"Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose,\" \u003ci\u003eHow This Night Is Different\u003c\/i\u003e will excite, charm, and profoundly resonate with anyone who's ever felt ambivalent about his or her faith, culture, or place in the world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElisa Albert is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Birth, The Book of Dahlia\u003c\/i\u003e, the short story collection \u003ci\u003eHow This Night Is Different\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of the anthology\u003ci\u003e Freud's Blind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePost Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus, Time Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, on NPR, and in many anthologies. Albert grew up in Los Angeles and received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Lini Mazumdar Fellow. A recipient of the \u003ci\u003eMoment\u003c\/i\u003e magazine emerging writer award and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize, she has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the HWK in Germany, and the Amsterdam Writer's Residency. She lives with her family in upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.44 x 5.74 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228744270073,"sku":"9780743291286","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dGp3eTJWTG9XNmlJZDdNZGIrK3cvUT09.webp?v=1768296174","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/how-this-night-is-different-stories-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}