When the parents of a man in his 20s decide to sell their home and move to a retirement community, he is forced to confront his future and his past, and what leaving his small hometown might mean.
A daughter explains how she and her family cope with her mother’s suicide after the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winner of the 2004 Willow Review Award for prose.
A wife visits her husband’s apartment after their recent separation.
“Janet Flora’s work, rooted in our contemporary world and its emotions, has the grace, power and resonance of writers like Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers and James Salter. Flora, like these masters, tells stories in plain, simple and evocative prose.”