Here I Am - Softcover

Hansen, Boo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615957137 ISBN 13: 9780615957135

Publisher: Shadow Press, 2014

Synopsis

Here I Am is a collection of seven stories about loss and our capacity for self-deception. In settings as diverse as an egg factory, a mental hospital and the border of Zaire, these stories deal with lives that have taken a disturbing and unexpected turn. The storytellers include: a sardonic trial lawyer confronting her mortality, a young girl whose unusual bond with her twin brother is tested by their father’s incomprehensible act, a newlywed at odds with his wife who discovers the price of marital peace, a teenage rebel forced to reconsider her corrupting influence on a younger brother, a boy whose feelings for his imprisoned father are shaped by seventeen years of contentious correspondence, an American tourist encountering unforeseen danger at a border crossing in Africa, and an adolescent boy struggling to understand why he killed his grandfather. These people share only one thing in common -- they find it easier to delude themselves than to acknowledge the truth that they know in their hearts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shadow Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615957137
• ISBN 13: 9780615957135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146