The Last One Way: 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, an Orthodox Jewish wife is abandoned and made miserable because her husband will not consent to a religious divorce.

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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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