Seven interlocking stories following the lives of four friends in a coastal American city over a long summer of lost jobs, asinine anniversaries, strange encounters, and garrulous gossip.
Sheila Ascher and Dennis Straus publish together as Ascher/Straus. In addition to three novels and a collection of short fiction, their fiction has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize series, Top Top Stories (City Lights), Exile's Exiles, Chelsea: A Retrospective (Twenty Five Years), Hugh Fox's The Living Underground: A Prose Anthology, Likely Stories, Language and Structure in North America, Chicago Review's Two Volume Survey of Innovative Fiction, and others.