The Most Excellent Immigrant: A Story Collection - Softcover

Budman, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604893346 ISBN 13: 9781604893342

Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West Al, 2022

Synopsis

A lost antique pillow from Russia contains pearls, valuable by themselves. But what makes them even more precious is that they are the main ingredient for the elixir of youth. A self-appointed Certified Interpreter of Dreams and Afflictions buys the pillow on a lark, and soon must fight a charming con woman Penelopa (who realizes the true value of the pearls) and her clueless sidekick Piotr for possession of the pillow and its pearls. Be careful what you wish for, Penelopa! Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Catapult, Witness, Five Points, Guernica/PEN, American Scholar, Huffington Post, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, and elsewhere. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press. He co-edited multiple authors in anthologies from Ooligan and Persea presses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West Al
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604893346
• ISBN 13: 9781604893342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138