The people in *Dutch Monkey Dreams* are looking for something they cannot quite name.

A writer dreams of a different life across a coffee-shop table. A family discovers that Grandma has become a she-wolf. A man finds himself caught between memory, desire and the strange logic of everyday life. Elsewhere, lovers, soldiers, widows, travelers and dreamers make imperfect choices and try to understand what remains afterward.

In these stories, the ordinary world is never entirely stable. Reality bends slightly. Memory intrudes. The absurd becomes tender, and the tender sometimes becomes unsettling.

Spanning three decades of writing, *Dutch Monkey Dreams* is a collection about longing, loneliness, family, love, regret and the private stories people tell themselves in order to keep going. Tsvi Jolles writes with warmth, humor and a quiet surrealism, following characters who are rarely heroic but deeply human.

These are stories about the moments when an ordinary life slips just slightly out of place, and reveals something that had been there all along.