Other Resort Cities

“Tod Goldberg's stories are not like faceted jewels. They are like glinting barbed wire, actually, roped across the field where you are reading, racing, wondering what's next, and then pierced with longing, regret, or revelation. His new collection kept me reading like that — racing to find out what would happen next to these people only Tod Goldberg could create.” —Susan Straight

Evocative, sometimes strange short stories, reflecting on crossed-out lives, aging, the difficulty of connecting. A mother fails with her adopted Russian daughter, a dying man in a dying resort town haunted by memories of murder, a creepy guy converts his home into a Starbucks (complete with barista) and a rabbi who isn't performs a switcheroo in dealing with disposing of bodies. Literary fiction from a twisted perspective.