Fools

Joan Silber is the author of eight works of fiction. Among many awards and honors, she has won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.

"Silber deftly constructs whole, fully realized lives in just afew pages, and her use of first-person narratives gives thesestories an intimate, confessional feeling, as if you’ve struckup a conversation with a particularly talkative stranger."