Lithuania: Short Stories

by Joe Ashby Porter

The author of Eelgrass and The Kentucky Stories offers a new collection of "mysterious and beautiful" (Lee Smith) stories, "as subtle, syntactically graceful, and beautiful as any I've seen" (Toby Olson). The stories in Lithuania are set in such diverse places as Tunisia, Quebec, and Baltimore and "conjures up quirky, gritty characters and surrounds them with evocative swatches of local color" (Publisher's Weekly).

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

About the author

Joseph Ashby Porter (1942-2019) was an American short story writer, novelist, and Shakespeare scholar who taught at Duke University.

Reviews

[Emmett Ferree · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was not a fan. The stories were incredibly dry. I struggled to follow what was happening, and some of the longer stories seemed to have no plot to me. I read the whole thing to give the book a chance, but it just wasn’t for me.