Books like A Model World and Other Stories

This is a collection of contemporary short stories.... The first story is called "S Angel". Ira attends a Jewish wedding in Los Angeles and immediately gets his arm pinched by his aunt Lillian painfully. He's looking for his female cousins: One who is on the crew team at Cal in Berkeley, or another cousin, who had twice, in their childhoods, allowed Ira to see what he wanted to see. Many quirky characters....the Jewish wedding where it looks like everyone might just be trying to survive until they can get home and watch TV. In "Ocean Ave", ....Laguna Beach, California, Bobby Lazar is sitting in Cafe Zinc with his friends newly married (goopy happy), feeling a little sick over their happiness when he's been lonely for a long time. In walks Suzette....Bobby's old love. Bobby is trying to tell himself that he doesn't love her anymore as he looks more closely at what she is wearing: "She had on one of those glittering, opalescent Intergalactic Amazon leotard-and-tights combinations that seem to be made of cavorted or adamantium and do not so much cling to a woman's body as seal her off from gamma rays and lethal Stardust". There are nine more short stories....In Part II ...the stories are connecting - coming of age issues of a guy named Nathan Shapiro. A few of the endings to Michael's stories in Part I, don't have clear closure... reminding me of author Etgar Keret.....where the reader is left to spend some time thinking.....to figure out our own conclusions. Fact is.....Michael Chabon can write!!! Terrific $1.99 Kindle download special.