Foreign Brides

First UK edition. 12mo. 208pp. Blue cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket praise from Mordecai Richler, Jonathan Rosen and W. G. Sebald.

Author's debut collection of short stories, about cross-cultural unions in London, New York, and 'a constellation of European and Israeli cities'. The offspring of an American father and a Russian mother, Lappin grew up in Moscow, Prague and Hamburg, acquiring native fluency in a number of languages on the way, but writing in English because of its 'nimbleness, humour and lightness of touch'. "These sharp, wry stories about life in exile form a memorable portrait of cultural alienation." –The New Yorker