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South Florida Spin--J'Adoube

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Virginia Aronson shares with the reader her keen perceptions and colorful characters in South Florida Spin. Each short story carries the weight and hopes of characters who are believable, flawed and entertaining. Her prose reads like poetry. A good read. I look forward to a full length novel from this gifted writer.

You Remind Me of Me, Winter of the Songbird, What Would Jesus Drink?, Everything Must Go, and more are the engaging tales that outline this offbeat and entertaining collection of short stories in "South Florida Spin", the debut fiction collection of Virginia Aronson -- and what a debut she makes. Highly intriguing and entertaining from the first page to the last, Aronson will touch your heart and make you laugh all the same with her edgy yet authentic prose. Highly recommended to fiction collections everywhere and for people who just want bursts of great writings in short bursts, "South Florida Spin" can't be missed.

Virginia Aronson's characters are ethereal, world-hungry ghosts lost in the haze of youth, addiction, delusion and obsession. From the inlands to the beaches of Miami, American Suburbia has never looked so alien and so familiar before. She brings to the table the starkness of Bukowski, the post-modernism of (Ryu) Murakami and Maugham's innate sense of beauty within the human condition.

This author would dispute the publisher's liner notes stating "a collection of short stories" to suggest that Mrs. Aronson has given us something more personal and cohesively powerful as a single lifetime experienced in sometimes painful measures to depict the cycle of abuses to hope and healing. Episodic, yes; but we are led through this story by skilled and talented hands. Poetic and rhythmic like the steady beat of ocean waves, "South Florida Spin" floats through your senses. It is an epic journey in 108 pages that will leave you breathless and stunned.

Mrs. Aronson's prose is fine and she promises to be an important author at this rate.

March 19, 2008
Jason McDonald