Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel

<b>*A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book* <p/>Funny painful outrageous . . . Anya Ulinich is the David Sedaris of Russian-American cartoonists.<br>--Gary Shteyngart</b> <p/>Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange often unmooring world of grown-up dating in this darkly comic graphic novel. After her fifteen-year marriage ends Lena Finkle gets an eye-opening education in love sex and loss when she embarks on a string of online dates all while raising her two teenage daughters. The Vampire of Bensonhurst the Orphan Disaster Man and the Diamond Psychiatrist are just a few of the unforgettable characters she meets along the way. Evoking Louis C. K.'s humor and Amy Winehouse's longing and anguish and paying homage to Malamud and Chekhov <i> Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel</i> is a funny and moving story beautifully told.