Big Truth

About the Book

An astronaut turning eighty suffers a disturbing encounter. A hard-charging lawyer levitates. Satan makes a cruel wager with God. America bans stand-up comedy. Thus begins a journey toward self-discovery, concluding with four childhood friends taking a road trip fifty years after the last time they were all together and laying their relationships bare. Twenty-five stories set in California, Oregon, New York, Israel and India examine ambition, loss, friendship, parenthood, memory and aging to consider elusive—and often painful—truths.

About the Author

David Perlstein authored the novels The Odd Plight of Adonis Licht, Flight of the Spumonis, The Boy Walker, San Café and Slick!—a Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Indie Book of 2012. His stories have appeared in Reed Magazine, PacificReview, Summerset Review and Oyez Review. David lives in San Francisco. davidperlstein.com.