The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection
concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone:
survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for
mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden
transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane, even
absurd settings.
Brenner's stories range in setting from the rural and southern
(a rotating country music bar, a dog track/jai alai compound, a
grocery store, a natural cold springs sinkhole) to the urban and
high-tech (absurdly bureaucratic companies and academic departments
and a food irradiation plant). Often young and tough women seeking
to hone their survival sensibilities, Brenner's characters are a
mix of the everyday and the fantastic: frustrated secretaries and
scientists, a young supermodel, precocious children, fierce
plumbers and mechanics, a psychic grandmother, an unhappy lottery
winner, a desperate grocery-store mascot in an animal suit. And
then there are the animals--real ones of all kinds who turn up at
unlikely moments and often seem to be trying to help.
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