Other People's Lives

These vibrant short stories are about the lives of Jewish families in New York in the mid-twentieth century. But, in Kaplan's vision, everyday life, with its complexity, disorder, and comic subtleties can never obscure a deeper reality. Her sharp-eyed, quirky children and adults are haunted by history, both individual and collective.

Other People's Lives won the Jewish Book Award, and the Ernest Hemingway-PEN Prize in 1976.