Issue 10 / Summer 2017 Though I had known him for over forty years, I never really knew him. He was dying now in the hospice wing of the nursing home. A nurse sat at a desk by his side taking notes. She looked up from her clipboard, glanced at the clock, then...
Issue 10 / Summer 2017 It was a dog—or at least, it was once. The decaying carcass of a massive wolfhound lay right in front of them, covered in pine branches. The bulbous eyes and long teeth protruded from sunken flesh, and the tongue was a swollen stub,...
Swimming in Hong Kong by Stephanie Han Swimming in Hong Kong Author: Stephanie Han Willow Springs Books, 2017 ISBN: 978-0983231769 $19.95 Stephanie Han’s collection of short stories, Swimming in Hong Kong, conveys a series of realistic portraits—detailed...
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Author: Imbolo Mbue Random House, 2016 ISBN: 0812998480 $12.25 Ever since Behold the Dreamers landed on my doorstep from Book of the Month in September 2016, I have been trying to recount the story...
Issue 10 / Summer 2017 For three years in the 1970s my father lived in Malawi in an abandoned fish warehouse that he converted into a home with the help of his friend Vaughan and a group of Malawian day laborers. He moved there to avoid conscription into the...
