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Deborah Eisenberg is almost unparalleled in her mastery of the short story form. In her latest series, she shows once more her virtuosic capabilities in correctly distilled, perfectly-shaped reports of individual disconnection and connection, today. From the number of friends whose fortune in obtaining a lavish Manhattan sublet turns to devastation as their porch becomes a front-row seat to the devastation of 9/11, towards the also unpleasant love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg superbly "demonstrates the lifestyles of individuals rubbed raw by what the fates have delivered them" (Vanity Fair).