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With an eye for quirky detail, Helen W. Mallon presents four lively characters who are all, in different ways, on a blindfolded hunt for intimacy. Izzy, the burned-out mother of twins in "Did You Put the Cat to Bed?" tries to provoke her clueless husband by painting the town red. In "You Say You Want a Revolution", Sarah, a motherless child of the '70s, flaunts her sexual liberation, refusing to admit she's being used by an older man....

Balla is often described as "the Slovak Kafka" for his depictions of the absurd and the mundane. In the Name of the Father features a nameless narrator reflecting on his life, looking for someone else to blame for his failed relationship with his parents and two sons, his serial adultery, the breakup of his marriage, and his wife's descent into madness. Against the backdrop of their stiflingly gray provincial lives, he completely fails to act against "the thing" growing in the cellar of the house he built with his brother.