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From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune), Saul and Patsy is “stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight” (The Los Angeles Times).

Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both fromthe East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married lifein the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentileand cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) theyhave moved to this small town–a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museumof earlier American feelings”–where he has taken a job teaching high school.

Soonthis brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children have become a part of theirlives, first their own baby daughter and then an unloved, unlovable boy named GordyHimmelman. It is Gordy who will throw Saul and Patsy’s lives into disarray with aninscrutable act of violence. As timely as a news flash yet informed by an immemorialunderstanding of human character, Saul and Patsy is a genuine miracle.