Russian Lover and Other Stories

A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from an author who revels in playing with form but never loses the heartbeat, whose writing “packs a powerful punch” (Tucson Weekly).

An apprentice dominatrix suddenly loses her grip, a spurned wife attempts to explain her husband’s flaws to his mother, a stripper turns the tables on a jeering customer . . .

Jana Martin’s smart, vulnerable heroines respond to life’s curveballs with guts and flair. In luminous prose she deftly plumbs the depths of their troubles—and shows the often startling ways in which they dig themselves out.