A Slight Curve. This item is unavailable.A Slight Curve

Two women never meet, but their lives collide. Ulrike is an East German immigrant and Stasi survivor who still struggles with the effects of the totalitarian regime on her psyche. Her husband Peter is one of the people who must pay the price. Ruth is a California chemist with secrets in her family who just lost her father under mysterious circumstances and is witnessing her mother’s descent into alcoholism. When Ulrike is gone, a hesitant friendship starts between Peter and Ruth. Or is it more than a friendship? Follow these strong, opinionated women on their paths before and after a pivotal moment that bonds their lives forever, even beyond death.

A. Molotkov is an immigrant writer. His poetry collections are " The Catalog of Broken Things," " Application of Shadows," " Synonyms for Silence" and " Future Symptoms" . His novel " A Bag Full of Stones" deals with hate crime in 2019 America. His collection of ten short stories, " Interventions in Blood," is part of Hawaii Review Issue 91; he co-edits The Inflectionist Review. He plays the Armenian duduk and takes photos with mirrors. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com.