Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
This is a collection of short fiction I began writing while living in New York, but edited and had published after moving to Berlin, where I could look at the experience of life in Manhattan at a distance. The stories are about figuring things out, the right questions as much as their answers, and a lot of cliches about finding yourself that aren't cliches when you're living them.
Reviews
I loved The Heroes and Other Stories. Kat Hausler does an incredible
job of making each character seem real and significant. Her stories are
almost haunting and leave you thinking about what occurred long after
reading the last word. My favorite one was the title story, The Heroes,
with Peripeteia at a very close second. I could read these stories
again and again!<br /><br />(customer review)
