The common themes in this collection
of short stories include how a person can be okay, and not be okay, both at the
same time. Many of the people in the
stories find themselves at a point in their lives when change may or may not
offer a new beginning. The choices they
make about change are enlightening in some cases, and surprising in other
cases.
In one story a young girl allows that
hers will not be “a singular life” and she will “not be the cause of anything
monumental”. Several of the stories
include that kind of quiet discovery.
In another story a mother tells her daughter that sometimes
your whole life gets lost. The daughter
says, then a person should go find it. And the
mother’s reply is that it is too late.
I enjoyed these stories. The people make mistakes, separate and are
reunited, and sometimes separate again, but they are all interesting people and
stories.
(As an aside: I will almost always pick up a book that has
an Edward Hopper painting on the cover, it seems like a sign that it is worth
my attention.)
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