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A wonderful variety of slices of life
Ms. Million Simmons has a gift for speaking in many voices. From one poignant story to the next she channels a school girl, a rural widower, a young bachelor, and other assorted characters. In some ways it is “light reading,” because of the short, easy to read stories, and in some ways it is not, as she tackles subjects such as racism and xenophobia, Alzheimer’s, and the death of loved ones. But she does so in heartfelt, engaging chapters that made me wish each short story were part of a novel. Many of these characters felt like family members, even in the short time it took to get to know them. And it is interesting to speculate which story elements might have been autobiographical, and which were purely imaginative. Either way, the details and descriptions made each experience real.
Ms. Million Simmons has a gift for speaking in many voices. From one poignant story to the next she channels a school girl, a rural widower, a young bachelor, and other assorted characters. In some ways it is “light reading,” because of the short, easy to read stories, and in some ways it is not, as she tackles subjects such as racism and xenophobia, Alzheimer’s, and the death of loved ones. But she does so in heartfelt, engaging chapters that made me wish each short story were part of a novel. Many of these characters felt like family members, even in the short time it took to get to know them. And it is interesting to speculate which story elements might have been autobiographical, and which were purely imaginative. Either way, the details and descriptions made each experience real.
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