| Description |
The following short stories, though the main characters as dissimilar, are the results of my own meditations on themes of family, and the ways in which characters in fiction place themselves in relation to each other, the ways in which they maintain their privacy and at the same time act on their desire to connect with others. Part of my interest in each of these stories lies in discovering how those balances are, or are not, achieved. That interest is manifest in the stories' central characters, two who are grappling with the complex balancing at work in families (The Good World and The Reunion), and one who has chosen to live alone (Fruit). The language, plot lines and thematics of these stories are representative, I think, of the direction my writing is now moving in. The Reunion, in addition to being an independent story, is also part of a larger project of a novel made of several, self-contained short stories. I conclude with this group of stories with this one because it is, for me at least, a story still expanding. |
