A collection of insightful stories rushes straight to the heart strings and tugs with a direct appeal to the emotional dependency that occurs in relationships between parent and child or between men and women.
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From Publishers Weekly
Williams's first collection offers tales of heartache and slight domestic dislocations, its focus held tight on pain. In "Afghanistan," a husband wonders if his adulterous guilt has ruined his marriage as he struggles to interpret his wife's cryptic message that she has "gone to Afghanistan." The bereaved young mother of "Sole Custody" learns that her ex-husband believes their dead child has come back to him with the birth of his new son. Despite their compelling themes, however, the stories lack visceral impact. Williams seems more concerned with creating careful structures for her characters' feelings than with conveying the feelings themselves. Postures are pat: A woman searches her face in a mirror to see if tragic news has left visible changes; a mother undergoing therapy for childhood abuses kneels by her own daughter's bed in the light of a Wonder Woman lamp. Humor surfaces in stray lines ("My mother held the Southwestern patent on saying something nice or not saying anything at all; until I learned to read I was sure Euphemism was a book of the Old Testament"), but it, too, is overdetermined. Williams has a talent for close observation and a valuable sense of the ridiculous; it remains for her to develop more confidence in these gifts.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
In this compilation of nine stories, Williams explores the diverse sphere of interpersonal relationships. Although the tales do not feel like a recitation of social problems, their subject matter covers the gamut of human experience: love, death, divorce, and the stresses of ordinary life. In the title story, a sensitive doctor struggles to maintain his family as his beloved wife attempts to work through memories of past abuse. "Legacy" describes a loving but overprotective father who is poisoning his family with his concern. Another grapples with a husband's infidelity and subsequent guilt in relating to his wife and daughter. Two more involve a minister's young, adopted daughter, simultaneously rebellious and eager to please. The stories are well written and the male protagonists are refreshingly fleshed out. Recommended for public libraries.
- Kimberly G. Allen, National Assn. of Home Builders Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Kimberly G. Allen, National Assn. of Home Builders Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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