The School of Anecdotal Medicine

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>A baboon rescued from medical experimentation leads to a quandry for one of Darwin's descendants. A public health officer falls in love with a Christian Scientist. A man whose wife has disappeared attends a support group for widowers. A locksmith has an ulterior motive for giving his all to a community cause. Again and again in these stories the road to self-discovery is paved with contradiction and imposture.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>In the realm of the short story Jacob M. Appel is our great moral diagnostician: unfailingly clear-eyed and empathetic alive to the humor and heartwrenching irony of our shortcomings and their pathological sequelae.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This edition reprints the eight stories included in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Magic Laundry</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> (Snake Nation Press 2014) and includes six additional previously uncollected stories.</span></p><p></p>