Maxima Library

A vegetarian actor moonlighting in the kitchen of a delicatessen finds that some people will stop at nothing to revise our memory of the past.

Eliot Fintushel lives alone in a working-class neighborhood north of San Francisco, “where my little daughter likes to visit and write and drum and paint goddesses between the rafters of the back porch.” Besides writing novels and short stories Mr. Fintushel is a performer and teacher of mask theater and mime.