Flight Path & Other Stories - Softcover

Jan Bowman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193734729X ISBN 13: 9781937347291

Verlag: Evening Street Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The stories in Flight Path & Other Stories reveal the power of kindness. In difficult moments of human contact, explored from childhood through old age, this collection provides a window into the kindness all people seek in moments of sorrow. In her poem Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye writes that when you know sorrow as the other deepest thing . . . then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore. from - Kindness in Words Under The Words: Selected Poems (1995) by Naomi Shihab Nye. The dynamic mix of characters in these stories, know much about sorrow. They know it in the burden of a wife looking after her war-damaged husband and the son who confronts her more than 35 years after she abandons them. They know it in the struggle to hide from violence of the world, even though violence finds them. But they do know kindness, too. They know it in the unspoken understanding between a young man and his elderly aunt in the aftermath of a violent murder. They know it in small gestures between friends, and even strangers, after a sudden death, as well as through the unexpected connections found on the other end of the phone or a shared meal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Evening Street Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 193734729X
• ISBN 13: 9781937347291
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 109
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