Short Story Collections
In Scott Randall's sophomore collection he finds the perfect pitch, story after story, getting right to the heart of ordinary characters — not the brilliantly burning stars, but the kind of people we see all around us every day. >>
The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details. This collection gives voice to characters who are not always heard. >>
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Give Us This Day is a striking collection of short fiction that explores the weight of the past through a kaleidoscope of voices and styles. Whether intimate or expansive, meditative or urgent, each story reveals how missteps and circumstances shape identity, and how, for many, the past is never truly left behind. >>
Narrated by Bertie, the oldest of nine children in a working-class Catholic family, these stories uncover some of the hidden secrets and the mysterious bonds that hold families together. >>
If Alice Munro were a man, she'd be Scott Randall. Randall's stories examine the small moments in ordinary life with the kind of exacting detail and intimate characterization we have come to know in the stories of some our best female writers. >>
This new collection looks unflinchingly at life's bountiful sorrows: the loss felt by abandoned children, the sudden intrusion of sickness or death, the journey away from home and the shining, difficult path of return. >>
With compelling exuberance, Margaret Macpherson entices her readers to leave behind their familiar comforts and join her on a unpredictable journey of hazardous navigations – where the risks are many, the rewards transformative. >>
The stories in Permanent Tourists feature displaced characters loosely connected through a support group, all of them dealing with loss precipitated by an elusive father, husband or lover, by a wife’s death, a lost child, sibling rivalries. >>
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