Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories
Edited by Norman Ravvin
Awarded the Montreal Segal Prize for Literature
Fiction / Anthologies
248 pages • 6 x 9"
ISBN 0–88995–246–9 paper • CDN 18.95 • USA 16.95

Trace the development of the short story in Jewish Canadian literature—from the early works, translated from Yiddish, by Yaacov Zipper Chava Rosenfarb, to the recent works of young writers such as Cary Fagan, Claire Rothman, and Robyn Sarah. Includes writers better known as novelists—Matt Cohen, Mordecai Richler, and Adele Wiseman—as well as stories by others better known as poets and journalists—Tom Wayman, Ken Sherman, and Elaine Kalman Naves.

Reviews
"Filled with dawning, oblique truths, and crystalline prose."
–Books in Canada

"Not Quite Mainstream deserves a wide readership."
–Canadian Jewish News