Daughters

by Danny Davis

This book contains six stories. Some emphasize mystery, some adventure, while others deal with the struggle against heartbreak. They all sympathetically portray the human condition, and each in its own way celebrates family--and, of course, daughters. "Adult moments" occur in a couple of stories, so they are intended for adults and older teens.

Leanna and Amos-Alone, penniless, and hungry, a teenage girl seeks refuge in an abandoned house.

More Than Precious-A man with a tragic past receives a new neighbor and a new beginning.

Daughters-A man and a woman imprisoned in a mysterious room receive visitors from the eighteenth century.

We Have a Kid-A couple go in search of the child they gave up for adoption.

The Little Girl Next Door-Strange appearances bring hope to a lonely old man beset by tragedy.

Edmona-In medieval times, a disabled girl stands alone again an evil monarchy.

339 pages, Paperback

Published November 18, 2017

About the author

After teaching math in college for many years, Danny turned to another of his great loves: literature. Over time, his reading interests have varied widely, ranging among such great writers as Thomas Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, the Brontes, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Stephen King, Kate Atkinson, Jennifer Egan, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lauren Groff. Through these writers and others, he spent long periods delving into various genres, both fiction and non-fiction, and he hopes that his own writing is a reflection of these pursuits.

Reading can be a great motivator. Danny read Melissa Müller’s biography of Anne Frank in 2014, and for the next couple of years, he read almost exclusively Holocaust-related books—histories, memoirs, novels, etc. One book was particularly significant. This was Serge Klarsfeld’s French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial. About three-fourths of that very large book is devoted to photographs of French children who were victims of the Nazi’s Final Solution, and even the most casual perusal is an emotional journey. For Danny, it was a call for action that led him to write Saving Anny, his contribution to Holocaust Remembrance.

If there is a central, prominent element that runs through all of his writing, it is family. Danny believes that the human family, in its many forms, traditional and non-traditional, large and small, is and always has been a powerful and indomitable bulwark against the vicissitudes of our ofttimes precarious existence.