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A review by essjay1
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe
4.0
Stories of love and loss, heartbreak and regret. I love a good story collection but this one took a while to warm up for me. The writing is excellent - clever, nuanced, concise - however for some reason I failed to engage.
Some stand out stories: Anything Remarkable (on marriage, on the said & unsaid - when was the last time you wished for different?), Chavez (on being abandoned, grief etc), A Small Cleared Space (when the loss is a child). Sinkers the standout for me. So perfectly captures the perversity of the grief process.
Most of these stories deal with how to move on, from loss of some sort be it death of a loved one or a relationship, or just an argument.
Some stand out stories: Anything Remarkable (on marriage, on the said & unsaid - when was the last time you wished for different?), Chavez (on being abandoned, grief etc), A Small Cleared Space (when the loss is a child). Sinkers the standout for me. So perfectly captures the perversity of the grief process.
Most of these stories deal with how to move on, from loss of some sort be it death of a loved one or a relationship, or just an argument.