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WHERE THINGS ARE
WHEN YOU LOSE THEM
In these twelve stories, Martin Golan delves into the nature of loss, from the mundane, like misplacing your keys, to the heartbreaking, like losing your youthful promise, how you though your life would turn out.
With a reporter's eye for detail and a poet's ear for language, Golan takes us through a landscape familiar to anyone who has experienced a moment when something changes inside you that you can't quite name, except to know you aren't the person you were before.
As we tour this landscape of loss we find, in the end, a bit of redemption and a chance at peace. Loss, we discover, comes with being human, with any life lived fully and well. | |
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A Glimpse Inside:
When Annie fell off the mountain she didn't make a sound. We were hiking, and had stopped at a waterfall. Annie, in typical fashion, decided to scale the nearly horizontal rocks to enjoy the view. After clambering all the way up she waved .... I remember how small she looked up against the boulders, this woman who loomed so large in my life at that time.
--- When Annie Fell Off The Mountain
"ANNIE," DESCRIBED AS "A LOVE STORY BEFORE ROE V. WADE," WAS READ BY THE AUTHOR TO AN OVERFLOW CROWD AT WATCHUNG BOOKSELLERS. MORE READINGS WILL BE POSTED HERE WHEN WE HAVE TIME.
The two men had known each other for more than twenty years but had never shared a meal together without their wives. Roger chose the place, and it turned out to be a dark and musty bar, the kind that smells damply of sex and regret ...
--- The Loneliness of Men | |
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Praise for Golan's writing:
"Martin Golan writes of contemporary marriage with humor and reckless candor. He voices our marital anxieties,
its frustrations, losses and joys. Somewhere between the lies we tell each other and those we tell ourselves, Golan
finds a vast human neediness for romantic love." |
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-- National Book Award finalist Ken Kalfus
"Surprising ... refreshing"
-- BookList
"... a dozen short-but-rich literary gems"
-- TaRessa Stovall, Montclair Times
"Everbody who isn't old enough to remember when abortion was illegal should be forced to read, 'When Annie Fell Off the Mountain.' It will open their eyes, and make them more careful. Everybody's children should read it, when they're old enough."
-- Audience comment at a recent reading |
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