Books & Authors Book Club: Holding Pattern
This season’s book club pick, by author Jeffrey Renard Allen, is a captivating short-story collection which takes place in a world like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no fairy tales. The hostility, the hurt, is all too human.
The protagonists circle each other with steely determination: a grandson taunts his grandmother, determined to expose her secret past; for years, a sister tries to keep a menacing neighbor away from her brother; and in the local police station, an officer and prisoner try to break each other’s resolve.
In all the stories, Allen calibrates the mounting tension with exquisite timing and mesmerizing prose.
Join us for Books & Authors Book Club, and enjoy good company, and light refreshments, as we share our thoughts on the reading.
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