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In Curt Leviant's wry, funny tales of love and desire set in various locales-the deep South, Boston, New York, Italy, Israel-the protagonists are men, women, guys and gals of various backgrounds and ages. Some are teenagers; others are students, writers, salesmen, teachers; there's even a great-grandfather in the mix. We meet Holocaust survivors, a pretty petty thief, a playwright, students on vacation, a Polish gentile woman in love with Jewish history, a non-Jewish Holocaust historian, a book salesman, a Yiddish artist, a synagogue architect, a secretary at Harvard, and other delectable characters.What unites all these disparate people is the universal desire for love and affection-some claw, some snag, others just wait. And some even succeed.Leviant's newest collection stands alongside his substantial oeuvre in the vein of Bellow, Singer, Kafka-a place they're likely to remain for a long, long time.