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When a little girl's body is found in the woods, a once quiet town is shaken to its core as it deals with the aftermath in this short story collection.
A man desperately tries to make a living but finds it difficult when the company van scares potential customers away. A parent fails to see when being protective of her only child transforms into an unhealthy obsession. A man decides he no longer wants children after hearing about the dead little girl, but is there something else factoring into the sudden decision? And in the final story, a child shuts down almost completely and has no idea if she can go on without her best friend.
In these twelve stories connected by a terrible tragedy, grown-ups and children alike try put the pieces back together again without any easy answers.
A man desperately tries to make a living but finds it difficult when the company van scares potential customers away. A parent fails to see when being protective of her only child transforms into an unhealthy obsession. A man decides he no longer wants children after hearing about the dead little girl, but is there something else factoring into the sudden decision? And in the final story, a child shuts down almost completely and has no idea if she can go on without her best friend.
In these twelve stories connected by a terrible tragedy, grown-ups and children alike try put the pieces back together again without any easy answers.
126 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 13, 2014
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Michael Crane
62 books21 followersMichael Crane is an indie author and scribbler of inane babble that can sometimes end up as stories. He went to Columbia College Chicago where he earned a BA in Fiction Writing and drank way too many Red Bulls. He is the author of IN DECLINE and LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES, and he also might've written two books while he was in high school, but they are absolutely dreadful and he cautions people to stay far, far away from them. He lives in Illinois and is always trying to work on something new, unless he's battling stupid writer's block.
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July 21, 2020
I love these style of novels. It plays as an interweaving mental analysis of the residents of a small town and how their lives and views on life (especially regarding safety) are forever altered by a gut-wrenching criminal act. Each chapter is essentially a view into the mind of an inhabitant living in the town, and how they are processing (or not) the tragedy that struck. The tragedy is never really explained by the author, instead you learn more about the incident (which takes place prior to the events in the novel) through the eyes/mind of the narrators/protagonists of each chapter. A great, short read. No action; the meat and potatoes is the turmoil caused, the sense of security destroyed, and the relationships forever altered.
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