There are three tidy, ivy-covered houses all made out of rocks near the path she’s walking on; one to her right, one to her left and the house she’s walking toward. Her feet are bare. The path is soft and warm without any twigs or stones to hurt her toes. …

A spotlight from one of the FBI cars flashed through the curtains, illuminating her parlor with an eerie white shaft of light. Then another spotlight lit up the room. The lights crisscrossed, moving up and down and from side to side like smart, sinister, see-through creatures, seeking her out. None…

…it’s the same lagoon. She’s standing at its edge, wearing her pink parka and taupe skirt, but it’s no longer night, it’s a warm, bright, sunshiny day in May. There’s no sign of the pregnant black woman who was bitten in two by the big blue fish, no sign of…

The Jewish population of the world is 15.2 million…one in every 500 people, give or take. One of three billionaires is a Jew. …

Officer Harley stood there grinning his goofy grin, rocking back on the heels of his spit-shined Wellington’s with his right arm slung over the open door of his patrol car. He was holding the microphone of the police radio. Giselle heard it crackle with static. The dispatcher was saying something…

They were on their merry way — Abraham Lincoln wearing a Jewish Colonel’s Korean War coat, Oprah Winfrey wearing a Salvation Army lynx jacket over her rumpled purple suit, and Giselle Winters wearing an indecently short taupe skirt, a pink Winnie-the-Pooh parka and still-untied green and white Nikes — all…

Abraham got up from his chair, kissed Giselle on the top of her head, stretched himself out on the sofa again, shoved the same pillow behind his head and closed his eyes. …

It was dark. It was quiet. Ankh was breathing onto Giselle’s closed eyes. She felt her eyelashes move when Ankh exhaled. She knew it was Ankh by the way her quietest little dog breathed — almost as if she was too polite to disturb the air. The Van Morrison CD…

Giselle’s parlor was cozy. She had a small, pastel flower print sofa in front of the picture window. There were no drapes, just thick, off-white, lace curtains which she opened and closed with a bamboo rod. …