View From The Pickleball Courts and Other Short Stories

At first glance, there is no common thread connecting these stories.Consider the titles alone: The View From the Pickleball Courts, Socrates of London, Jamaican Weddings, A Mafia Story, The Last Wise Man on Wall Street. They seem less like chapters in the same book than a group of strangers who have accidentally boarded the same train and are now too embarrassed to ask where it is going.One might ...