Like the smooth stones in one of his sto­ries, Mitchell Chefitz offers ten small pol­ished tales designed to coax read­ers to reflect on their approach­es to them­selves and oth­ers. The sto­ry of four diverse peo­ple who have gath­ered over a peri­od of time to hear tales told by their spir­i­tu­al guide frames the book. Lis­ten­ers become speak­ers as they explore the Jew­ish folk­tale of the mas­ter archer who dis­cov­ers a fool who paints bull’s eyes around arrows so that they appear to be per­fect shots. When the group con­sid­ers the pos­si­bil­i­ty that the wind which push­es an arrow slight­ly off course sym­bol­izes all that keeps the archer from find­ing cer­tain­ty, Chefitz’s sto­ry­teller points out that liv­ing with uncer­tain­ty has its own beau­ty. Char­ac­ters in the storyteller’s book of tales which fol­low are folk­tale-like, set­tings uni­ver­sal, informed by Chefitz’s ​“Jew­ish- fla­vored imag­i­na­tion.” An arro­gant law offi­cer is cursed to have to say a new bless­ing every day; an angry man trans­forms into oth­er things until he becomes him­self again, only wis­er; a for­tuneteller is helped by a friend to see beyond his own sad­ness. Half of these sto­ries were drawn from Chefitz’s two mys­ti­cal nov­els. Rec­om­mend­ed for light, gen­tle spir­i­tu­al guid­ance and encouragement.