HONEYDEW

The stories in Honeydew are unmistakably by Pearlman/ whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people, of their foib les and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth. Whether the characters are Somalian women who've suffered circumc ision, a special child with pentachromatic vision or a staid professor of Latin unsettled by a random invitation to lecture on the m ystery of life and death, Pearlman knows each of them intimately and reveals them with generosity.