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Inside the epigraph to the volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us, "If a tale begins with finding, it must end with searching". Therefore we discover each story here to follow the arc of any search, equally each also includes a rescue. What is immediately apparent is the fact it will be impossible to guess the proper execution this rescue will need or even who it is who'll want it. Instead the astonishingly talented Valerie Trueblood has imbued each story using its own depth and mystery, so rescue comes as a surprise to the listener, who's in intimate sympathy for the soul in extremity. And they are diverse characters whose fates, in lesser hands, might be thought of as hopeless: the fired cop turned security guard, the stolid 19-year-old nurses' aide who will not be going to art school, the cynical radio producer who's dying of breast cancer and on a plane on her way to Lourdes. In these 13 stories, linked by the common transcendent human genius, the writing is confident, clear, original, and frequently drop-dead stunning - as though the stories are being told by the most casually eloquent among us.

Category: Short Stories