Pinch

The Pinch revolves around a single enchanted day that somehow contains years, a day in which the antics of a group of Jewish mystics threaten to ravage the life of shop owner Pinchas Pin with miracles, and in which Pinchas' nephew Muni's ardour for an alluring tightrope walker collides with his passion for chronicling the wonders of North Main Street. Their stories, gleaned much later by a hapless bookseller from a fabulist history book, transform the fate of the neighbourhood. Now in paperback, The Pinch is a Steve Stern's most sparkling story.