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A review by tanyamariereads
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe
4.0
I’ll admit that I picked up this book because I was entranced by its cover. Thankfully the collection of short stories within were just as marvelous. I haven’t read anything by Josephine Rowe before, but Here Until August makes me eager to read more of her work.
This book holds ten short stories that all center around characters that have experienced an event which deeply changes their lives. Most of these stories center around loss. Not in the sense of death, although some stories do focus on that topic, but loss of a previous life that brought comfort and familiarity. These characters are trying to learn how to make do with the life changing event that they had little to no control over.
Reading Rowe’s words felt like I was recalling a dream. Her writing provides such vivid imagery and a real connection to the characters as they try to process everything going on in their life. These aren’t cheerful stories, but certainly ones that make readers wonder how they would cope with such drastic life changes.
Not every story in this collection was for me, but I loved a majority of them. Here are my top three from the collection:
1. The Once Drowned Man
2. Chavez
3. Horse Latitudes
This book holds ten short stories that all center around characters that have experienced an event which deeply changes their lives. Most of these stories center around loss. Not in the sense of death, although some stories do focus on that topic, but loss of a previous life that brought comfort and familiarity. These characters are trying to learn how to make do with the life changing event that they had little to no control over.
Reading Rowe’s words felt like I was recalling a dream. Her writing provides such vivid imagery and a real connection to the characters as they try to process everything going on in their life. These aren’t cheerful stories, but certainly ones that make readers wonder how they would cope with such drastic life changes.
Not every story in this collection was for me, but I loved a majority of them. Here are my top three from the collection:
1. The Once Drowned Man
2. Chavez
3. Horse Latitudes