Seven Eleven Forgotten and Other Stories

The innovative use of a common theme, convenience store phenomena, oddly weaves these nine strange tales together. The book follows a recurring character throughout the collection, Alex Aronovich, while he flees a distasteful life in Los Angeles—only to find Moscow every bit as unforgiving of his knack for dark romantic folly. Other stories (such as "A TIA for Gia," and "Princess 7" dance eclectically and playfully around the same convenience store theme--as a painter's subject used repeatedly, from never the same point of view.