Goodbye, evil eye

the long version

"The stories in Goodbye, Evil Eye revolve around tensions between Sephardic Jews - whose multilingual roots lie in Spain, Turkey, Greece Egypt, the Middle East - and contemporary life in the United States. With their superstitions, myths, and contradictions, the characters either fight to retain the old ways or struggle to be free of them, many times with quite bizarre consequences.". "The life of the Sephardim has hardly been noted in American fiction. Here, Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer presents a collection of characters that are certainly exotic - and somewhat familiar. These stories address the particular experiences of women, immigrants, and Jews in a pluralistic society, and at the same time give those experiences a universal coloration and stature."--BOOK JACKET.