In This Way We Are Wise: A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'

by Nathan Englander

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a young man living in Jerusalem witnesses the effects of terrorist bombings on the citizens' everyday lives.

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First published March 20, 2007

About the author

Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1999. The volume won widespread critical acclaim, earning Englander the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kauffman Prize, and established him as an important writer of fiction.

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