No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“From the first story I read in it, I was completely sucked in. It is both very, very earnest, and very, very quirky—an earnestness that leads you to very quirky places. I can give you a couple of examples from the book. “The Moves” is a story about a woman whose father is about to die. He really wants to give her something before he dies, but he’s an uneducated ex-Marine, and the only thing he can think of is a technique for making a woman come. The story is all about him sharing with her something that, if she’s heterosexual, she probably won’t have any chance to use in her lifetime. But the fact that her father is giving her something makes the content he’s teaching her totally unimportant.” Read more...

The Best 20th-Century Short Stories

Etgar Keret, Short Story Writer