G.A.R. Memorial Library (West Newbury)

The Vivian girls, stories, Brooks Wright

eng

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fiction

The Vivian girls

Brooks Wright

stories

With his new collection Brooks Wright adds to a list of published stories and novels, demonstrating what the poet Alfred Nichol calls "his uncanny ability to hear the voice of human conscience." In the title story a group of women who have been friends from childhood meet every year for dinner despite their differences. In THE SKY TONIGHT SHOW a young boy does his best to bring his divorced parents back together. Four stories about women explore how they manage loss and desire while maintaining their sense of self. In other stories, men cope with responsibility, self awareness,and love. Two women from very different cultures find a connection in SKY BLUE AFTER RAIN. WORDS BEFORE THEY'RE SPOKEN AND INCENDIARY DEVICES portray two very different teenagers dealing with gender dysphoria in the one, and the sudden encroachment of the adult world and its impact on adolescence and innocence in the other. RANGSEI, the closing story, is an excerpt from ONE57, a novel about the impact of greed and power on the lives of ordinary people, thousands of miles apart, the indifference of the powerful, and the goodness of those without that power when confronting it