If you are already a reader of Ozick, you will have developed a thirst. This collection will (temporarily) quench it. It contains all her best stories with the exception of 'The Shawl'. There are several collections of Ozick's stories available at fancier prices with fewer stories in them. What she writes will whirl you around - usually with one foot tied to New York, but at higher altitudes and across different time zones. How can anyone read Ozick and not be changed? The world, particularly the world (is there another?) of women and men, will look utterly different after reading each of these.. well what are they? Not fables, not allegories.. tales from the multiple universes just askew of the one we think we know.