“This extraordinary work of imagination, a series of thought experiments, literally turns death upside down, into a prism of life.  In these stories ripe with complexity and character, Piatigorsky explores the borderline of relationships facing the ultimate breaking point, mixing the profound with the simple and always finding the most human element.   A pleasure to read, they leave you thinking and imagining.  What more can one ask from good fiction?”

Ken Ackerman, author of BOSS TWEED: The Corrupt Pol who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York, and YOUNG J. EDGAR: Hoover and the Red Scare, 1919-1920.