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Remember some of those things adults would warn you NOT to do when you were young – like not swimming right after lunch or staring at the sun during an eclipse?
Reading Jill McCorkle’s newest book of short stories, Going Away Shoes is like looking straight into the sun, because it is both an exciting and calculated risk that explores family life in both harmony and distress with real and imagined slights.
The themes that lace these stories together are familiar to most – loss of center and grounding in fast changing times. Suburban families showing wear in gradual fractures, lonely men and women looking for the relationship that will finally work or the grown children who remain mired in childhood conflict.
These stories aren’t just darkness and gloom. As only a southern writer can, McCorkle’s wicked humor and biting wit lend her stories a unique depth and honesty. She pulls no punches and takes no enemies; instead, opening the stage wide for her characters to play upon. Go ahead – stare at the sun, if only for a second. Reviewed by Marilyn S |
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