The 17 stories in TELL IT NOT cover a broad spectrum of subjects and personalities. From a young Jewish family struggling to put down roots in the Land of our Fathers, to a psychopath writing on parole under psychiatric supervision; from a sleepless mother desperate to calm her baby's tears, to a woman confronting her past in a dressmaker's mirror, Deborah Freeman's conceptions--always the unexpected--are unfailingly original, disturbing and penetrating. Freeman's genius lies in "not telling." Much goes on between the words and the lines that is not written. Some of it will live with the reader forever!