The Most Excellent Immigrant

A lost antique pillow from Russia contains pearls, valuable by themselves. But what makes them even more precious is that they are the main ingredient for the elixir of youth. A self-appointed Certified Interpreter of Dreams and Afflictions buys the pillow on a lark, and soon must fight a charming con woman Penelopa (who realizes the true value of the pearls) and her clueless sidekick Piotr for possession of the pillow and its pearls. Be careful what you wish for, Penelopa! Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary.

About the author

Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Catapult, Witness, Five Points, Guernica/PEN, American Scholar, Huffington Post, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, and elsewhere. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press. He co-edited multiple authors in anthologies from Ooligan and Persea presses.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Budman
• Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West Al
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2022
• EAN: 9781604893342
• ISBN: 978-1-60489-334-2
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 215 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature