Fools for Love

“Helen Schulman is not afraid to make you squirm. Across her long and distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer, she has fearlessly explored the awkward collisions between our private and public selves, between what we present to the world and what we conceal from even our closest companions. . . . Fools for Love her latest collection of stories, finds Schulman’s characters weighing the past against the present, looking for redemption in the wrong places and occasionally coming up roses.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Without attempting to be a novel in stories, the collection is free to go off on wild tangents, such as a story narrated by an evil baby, Lucien H., and a tale of forbidden love with a married Orthodox rabbi in Paris. In multiple stories, people come back from the dead, and everywhere, there are sentences to make you laugh. . . . Never underestimate the power of a good short story to lift your spirits.”
—Kirkus [starred review]

“Helen Schulman’s new col­lec­tion makes will­ing fools for love of us all. Her wild inner heart reach­es out to our own, and as she says, ​’who wouldn’t want a piece of that?’”
—Jewish Book Council

“Engrossing. . . . Smartly balances humor and heartache. . . . [Schulman’s] eye for detail and bold characterizations make for an entertaining affair.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Piercingly lovely. . . . A sly wit at work.”
—AirMail

“Witty, polished, and deceptively casual. . . . Gives John Cheever a run for his money.”
—Booklist

“A couple of ghosts add an edginess to these stories whose spiky, sex-driven characters are all, definitely, fools for love.”
—Library Journal

“Smart and often witty. . . . The stuff of enjoyable fiction, and she delivers it with style.”
—Shelf Awareness