Alligators May be Present

A Novel

Andrew Furman author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Published:30th Mar '05

Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 8th July 2025, but could change

Alligators May be Present cover

While many Jews pick Florida as the perfect place to retire, Matt Glassman has chosen it as the place to begin his adulthood. Perhaps that's because the pressures of life have always reminded him of his grandfather, who mysteriously disappeared from the family twenty years ago. Now, while he tries to begin a family of his own, Glassman also builds a relationship with the one person, his grandmother, who might know the truth about his grandfather's disappearance. She's remained stubbornly reticent on the topic all these years, but when a familiar old man shows up at Glassman's office he thinks he may finally get some answers.

In his endearing debut novel... Furman explores with remarkable compassion and hope the twin mysteries of loss and abandonment, and the constant struggle to keep at bay the aching burden of sadness that threatens even the most peaceful and quiet of lives. - Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul

ISBN: 9780299207809

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 523g

272 pages