The Bubbe Meise and Other Stories

Bubbe Meise: A grandmother’s fable. An "old wives tale". An untrue story. Sometimes related to superstition. Often, an Aaron Zevy short story.

Aaron Zevy is at it again with a new collection of amusing tales and vignettes about his life with his friends, both real and imagined, and family. Like his first collection, Almost the Truth: Stories and Lies, which Kirkus Review called "... a series of hilarious stories...in an easy going style which is both polished and seemingly improvised," Bubbe Meise and Other Stories continues Zevy's trademark approach to storytelling, which blurs the lines of fact and fiction.

With a tip of the hat to David Sedaris’s self awareness and Etgar Keret’s metafiction, but a unique style and voice very much his own, Zevy amuses and astounds.

Don't try to figure out what is real and what is not just sit back and enjoy!

After all, Zevy reminds us to "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."

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Please find below a 3-story sample from the collection.

Ronnie 2.0

Pretty much everyone I knew told me it was time to upgrade my operating system. I ignored them. The default system I was born with had served me very well all of these years. I wasn’t about to change because of a bunch of disgruntled, complaining naysayers.
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Glory Days

My friend Harold Rosen has a son called Jacob. He is a good kid. You should have seen the face he made when I told him I was once the star of my high school basketball team. I wish I could say it was a look of surprise. It wasn’t. I wish I could say he was incredulous.
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The Kotel

When Harold heard I was going to Israel to visit my sister, he asked if I could bring something for him. Now Harold and I have been friends for a long time, and he is well-aware of my no-shlepping rule, so I knew he wasn’t going to saddle me with a big package.
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