Transactions in a F oreign Currency
by Deborah Eisenberg
Buy on AmazonThis is Eisenberg’s first collection of stories – and many of them hinge on how our perception of the world can be irrevocably changed. In the title story, a character answers the phone, and as she talks to the caller, a former lover, she glances toward the man she’s having a drink with: ‘He seemed like a scrap of paper, or the handle from a broken cup, or a single rubber band – a thing that has become dislodged from its rightful place.’ I so responded to this wonderful notion that you can lo...
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"This is Eisenberg’s first collection of stories – and many of them hinge on how our perception of the world can be irrevocably changed. In the title story, a character answers the phone, and as she talks to the caller, a former lover, she glances toward the man she’s having a drink with: ‘He seemed like a scrap of paper, or the handle from a broken cup, or a single rubber band – a thing that has become dislodged from its rightful place.’ I so responded to this wonderful notion that you can lo..."
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