BOOK REVIEW

Title: Between Camelots

Author: David Ebenbach

In ten words or less: Collection of short stories that captures brief moments in relationships.

Review: In Ebenbach's short stories, the characters are looking for ways to connect with other human beings. The title story, "Between Camelots," centers on a man who waits at a dinner party for a blind date who never shows up. In other stories characters explore tenuous moments that lead to changes in lives and the people that effect them. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for 2005.

Why bother? Brief insights into private lives.