The UnAmericans / Molly Antopol 261 pp.

This collection of smart, tightly-written stories features Russian-American Jews, both in the United States and Israel.  The title is apt, as all the characters struggle in different ways to be at home here.  Antopol is talented but has perhaps not quite come into her own yet.  Some of the stories - The Quietest Man and The Old World are two - feel formulaic and rather timid.  My Grandmother Tells Me This Story is excellent.