He’s thinking that the moon is the most beautiful he has ever seen when he hits the man. “Waking Lions,” a novel by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen You were twenty-three years old, and it was there, on that desolate island where no flower grows, that you were first granted the opportunity to look over God’s shoulder. “The Principle,” a novel by Jérôme Ferrari She could see she was becoming a thoroughly unlikable person. “Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories,” by Deb Ulin Unferth