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Wrongful Imprisonment
This collection of Short Stories follows my first publication "Twenty Seconds...and other Psychological Dramas"
These stories are also psychological dramas, they are about people and people's lives, and the challenges people
struggle to overcome, sometimes successfully, sometimes less so.
The title story is about a self-made man who developed a very good company together with a small group of family and friends, but a competitor has accused him of theft and fraud and he is sent to jail. How he deals with that huge obstacle is the story.
An independent man looks for a new challenge and travels to live and work in a different country. He is attractive and meets women, some who seem very pleasant but may not be, while others surprise him with being open and generous.
Many children come from very difficult backgrounds, which may hold them back as they grow. Two such people meet as young adults and find that they have much in common, and are trying to overcome their very troubling pasts. Can they?
This is one of my favourite stories. It is about a very talented young woman full of self-doubt, who finds work with an older, very successful man, who surprises her with his ability to enable her to confront some of her greatest fears.
A young woman has to escape from a life-threatening situation, and turns to an unexpected source for help.
Many individuals and organizations have set themselves up as marriage counsellors. This story looks at the sort of people who might come to such an event and the effect it may have on them.
I played soccer since I was a small child at school, and continued it until well into my senior years. This story is about a young doctor who is also a talented football player, but has other areas of his life that need a different approach.
The final story in this collection is about a very difficult mother-daughter relationship that leads to a period of great distancing, in which the younger woman has to make her own way in life. She then discovers the background story that led to the tension with her mother, and both wonder if the unhappiness can ever be overcome.
These stories are also psychological dramas, they are about people and people's lives, and the challenges people
struggle to overcome, sometimes successfully, sometimes less so.
The title story is about a self-made man who developed a very good company together with a small group of family and friends, but a competitor has accused him of theft and fraud and he is sent to jail. How he deals with that huge obstacle is the story.
An independent man looks for a new challenge and travels to live and work in a different country. He is attractive and meets women, some who seem very pleasant but may not be, while others surprise him with being open and generous.
Many children come from very difficult backgrounds, which may hold them back as they grow. Two such people meet as young adults and find that they have much in common, and are trying to overcome their very troubling pasts. Can they?
This is one of my favourite stories. It is about a very talented young woman full of self-doubt, who finds work with an older, very successful man, who surprises her with his ability to enable her to confront some of her greatest fears.
A young woman has to escape from a life-threatening situation, and turns to an unexpected source for help.
Many individuals and organizations have set themselves up as marriage counsellors. This story looks at the sort of people who might come to such an event and the effect it may have on them.
I played soccer since I was a small child at school, and continued it until well into my senior years. This story is about a young doctor who is also a talented football player, but has other areas of his life that need a different approach.
The final story in this collection is about a very difficult mother-daughter relationship that leads to a period of great distancing, in which the younger woman has to make her own way in life. She then discovers the background story that led to the tension with her mother, and both wonder if the unhappiness can ever be overcome.
241 pages, Paperback
Published August 29, 2021
About the author
Joseph Berger
61 books9 followersJoseph Berger was a reporter, editor and columnist with The New York Times from 1984 to 2015 and continues writing periodically for The Times as well as teaching urban affairs at the City University of New York. In 2011, he won the Peter Kihss Award given for a career’s work by the Silurians Press Club, New York City’s leading association of journalists. He was a religion correspondent from 1985 to 1987, covering the Pope’s trip to 10 American cities in nine days, and national education correspondent from 1987 to 1990, a period when American school curricula were under attack as too European-focused. From 1990 until 1993, he covered New York City’s schools and colleges, when there were bitter controversies over condom distribution and AIDS instruction. He was the recipient of the 1993 Education Writers Association award for exposing abuses in bilingual education. In September 1999, he was appointed deputy education editor where, among other stories, he directed coverage of the firing of one chancellor and the search for another, the dramatic changes in bilingual education and a series on the first-year of a new teacher.
He wrote a biweekly national column for the Times’ education page as well as columns for the regional editions. An immigrant himself, he spent three years as a kind of roving correspondent to New York neighborhoods, writing feature articles about the ethnic and cultural richness of the city that became the core of two books, “The World in a City” and “The Pious Ones.” Most recently, he chronicled the building of a new Tappan Zee Bridge, the first major bridge built in the New York area in half a century, in an occasional Times series.
Prior to joining the Times, Mr. Berger worked as Newsday’s religion writer, where he three times won the Supple Award given by the Religion Newswriters Association, its highest honor. Mr. Berger also worked at The New York Post, covering such assignments as the 1973 Middle East War and Watergate. From 1967 to 1971, he was an English teacher at a Bronx junior high school.
Berger is the author of “Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust,” which was published by Scribner in April 2001 and is a memoir about his family’s experience as refugees in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. The book was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times, which called it ”an extraordinary memoir” and was praised by Elie Wiesel as a “powerful and sweetly melancholic memoir, brilliantly written.” There have been excellent reviews as well in the Boston Globe, Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Berger’s first book was “The Young Scientists,” a study of the country’s top science high schools and their students, published by Addison Wesley in 1993.
Berger was born in Russia in 1945, spent the postwar years in D.P. camps in Germany and, after immigrating here, grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, City College and the Bronx High School of Science. He lives in Westchester County with his wife, Brenda, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Their daughter, Annie, a graduate of Northwestern University, is a senior editor for young adult books at Sourcebooks.
He wrote a biweekly national column for the Times’ education page as well as columns for the regional editions. An immigrant himself, he spent three years as a kind of roving correspondent to New York neighborhoods, writing feature articles about the ethnic and cultural richness of the city that became the core of two books, “The World in a City” and “The Pious Ones.” Most recently, he chronicled the building of a new Tappan Zee Bridge, the first major bridge built in the New York area in half a century, in an occasional Times series.
Prior to joining the Times, Mr. Berger worked as Newsday’s religion writer, where he three times won the Supple Award given by the Religion Newswriters Association, its highest honor. Mr. Berger also worked at The New York Post, covering such assignments as the 1973 Middle East War and Watergate. From 1967 to 1971, he was an English teacher at a Bronx junior high school.
Berger is the author of “Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust,” which was published by Scribner in April 2001 and is a memoir about his family’s experience as refugees in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. The book was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times, which called it ”an extraordinary memoir” and was praised by Elie Wiesel as a “powerful and sweetly melancholic memoir, brilliantly written.” There have been excellent reviews as well in the Boston Globe, Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Berger’s first book was “The Young Scientists,” a study of the country’s top science high schools and their students, published by Addison Wesley in 1993.
Berger was born in Russia in 1945, spent the postwar years in D.P. camps in Germany and, after immigrating here, grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, City College and the Bronx High School of Science. He lives in Westchester County with his wife, Brenda, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Their daughter, Annie, a graduate of Northwestern University, is a senior editor for young adult books at Sourcebooks.
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