Fools’ Tears and Prayers
Gregory Kanovich
1983
When will he come? When? When?
Zelda Fradkina is sitting at the piano and playing a Bach fugue. There is no one at home other than the Osherova widow Golda, the cook and housecleaner. Father does not linger in these backwoods (though he is a lumber merchant). He travels all over the northwestern territory, argues with the raftsmen, and disappears…
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