by Rivka Galchen, The Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2014
The narrator of "Wild Berry Blue" – one of 10 stories in Rivka Galchen’s quirky and disquieting new book, American Innovations – remembers the crush she had when she was nine years old on Roy, a cashier at McDonald’s. Her father, a secular Jew who says things adults don’t usually say to kids – about the Oedipus complex, General Rommel, and the straits of Bosporus – tells her Roy is a recovering alcoholic.