Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories

Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now in her newest collection she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11 to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister Eisenberg brilliantly illustrates the lives of people rubbed raw by what the fates have sent them (Vanity Fair).