Dec 15, 2009
In “Ordinary Love” and “Good Will”, the reader is presented with protagonists whose lives, and the lives of those closest to them, have been irrevocably altered by a chain of events that they set in motion years before. The novellas capture these characters at the point in time when the consequences of their previous actions are made clear to them in ways heretofore unrealized. Under the apparent calm of the familiar domestic routines described in each story runs an undercurrent of betrayal, neglect, and violence. The reader’s shock at these...
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