The Witch Bottle and Other Stories

<p><br></p><p><strong>FELDMAN CASTS A SPELL WITH THESE LAYERED IMMERSIVE OCCASIONALLY HILARIOUS STORIES EACH ONE A MINATURE NOVEL IN ITS DEPTH ITS WISDOM ITS AFTERGLOW-- Kathleen Wheaton</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>SPENDING TIME IN SUZANNE FELDMAN'S WORLD IS PURE JOY --</strong> Olga Zilberbourg author of Like Water and Other Stories</p><p><br></p><p>From Depression era Mississippi to the suburbs of modern America to the trials and tribulations of smart young women struggling to make a name for themselves in the arts Feldman delves deep into the dreams and emotions of regular people and makes them beautiful and accessible. This prize-winning collection of short stories and two novellas offers entrancing tales of redemption betrayal tradition and rebellion. These narratives range in mood from The Lapedo Child a tale of discovery and liberation to The Witch Bottle a comic examination of a pair of obsessed next-door neighbors. Untitled Number 20 explores life among women artists at the end of the Flower Power era and the beginning of the Seventies. The Stages is a meditation on one woman's struggle for dignity in the face of divorce and untreatable cancer.Whether it's the end of a marriage or a struggle for fame these works probe issues that give us that shock of recognition that is the hallmark of great art-wonderful absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come. </p>