Energized irreverent and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. In the collection s hilarious title story a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. The Wig takes an aging wigmaker and makes her for a single moment beautiful. In The Tumblers Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm s way. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of startling authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It hearalds the arrival of a remarkable new storyteller.