Fiction. In NOBODY'S BABY, Leo Litwak explores both the limits of compassion and the forms of malevolence. Writing with hard-won wisdom about the struggles of family life, Litwak takes us into the hearts of fathers and mothers, children and lovers, all in the throes of love, all yearning to achieve, or at least define, some kind of clarity. Both troubling and profoundly moving, the masterful stories of NOBODY'S BABY are by a writer at the height of his power.

Long after reading these stories, I find myself feeling for everybody--Lorrie, Paula, Shirley and Wesley, Alice and her son Emory, Heartless Willy. The people in Leo Litwak's fine stories make the reader laugh and cry. NOBODY'S BABY is at once fun and tragic. A most satisfying book.--Maxine Hong Kingston