Five adventures take the reader of this collection on journeys from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, to a cheap apartment in Brooklyn, to Manhattan, to New Mexico, and to Jerusalem. In "The Book of Moses," a successful sculptor finds himself shut out of his own life, unrecognized by those closest to him. In "Bola de la Fortuna," a Hispanic truck driver accused of murder discovers his fate in a crystal ball. In "The Shabbos Goy from Kaifeng,"...