>LitMag Wave: One Story No. 89

>With this story, One Story takes a dark turn. “The Wolf Story” by Irina Reyn is about Galya, the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, who is disturbed by (and at the same time denies) the shallowness of her life in New York, caught up in clubs and restaurants and a dehumanizing job. Her friend is moved by deeper waters to explore her Jewish heritage in Poland and when the story begins Galya has arrived in Warsaw to visit, to offer her help to Lauren who has a problem. But is Lauren really the one with the problem, the story asks? This is one of the better stories I’ve seen in One Story in quite a while.

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About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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