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Eileen Pollack. The Bris.

Posted in Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 2007. Stephen King & Heidi Piltor. with tags , , , , , , , on March 21, 2009 by Richard Farrell

An dying father confesses to his son that he lived a life pretending to be Jewish.  He asks the son to arrange a circumcision before his death, a task which the son struggles to understand and carry out.  The story felt overwritten in places to me, but the central premise was fascinating.