Rebecca Miller

"Rebecca Miller, author of Jacob's Folly and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, returns to the page with an arresting, darkly prescient collection of short fiction"--

"An eighteenth-century Jewish peddler is reincarnated as a fly in present-day Long Island, and becomes involved in the lives of two residents"--

A devoted daughter who comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, with the help of one of her father's former students.