"Like the best poetry, only infinitely more fun to read, No Longer and Not Yet opens our eyes to what's in front of them — love, irritation, friendship, injustice, good wine, children becoming themselves, the handsome young man opening the door of our apartment building, snow falling on a man who lives in a box outside. This group of beautifully connected stories slips by our eyes like life or Tolstoy..." Myra Goldberg, author of "Whistling and Rosalind," Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College