In my other life

the long version

"Joan Silber's In My Other Life is grounded in New York, and each of these stories focuses on "the Great Divide" - the surprising reversal that separates an old life from the new.". "In "Lake Natasink," an ex-junkie keeps taunting a friend who is about to step off the edge into a new family life in the country. In "Ragazzi," two former rock groupies, with families and jobs, try to remember "how they learned not to be idiots." In "What Lasts," newlyweds go from a lifestyle funded by dope smuggling in Turkey to a more mundane income gleaned from retailing women's underwear."--BOOK JACKET.