Beyond the Pale Rebekka Grossmann Professor at Harvard University and

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Beyond the Pale Rebekka Grossmann Professor at Harvard University andAs the title suggests this collection of short stories focuses on a variety of unusual but not atypical emotional and life style reactions people experience as a result of guilt compassion indiscretion abuse jealousy fantasy loss sense of mission and impending death. It provides insight into the strange nature of what it means to be human.