Short-story collection from Caroline Adderson offers an investigation into the influence of gender on perception
, but the stories within seldom take the clearest path. Most of them see characters poorly navigating myriad misfortunes and difficulties, and only one,takes flight from a Susan Orlean story first published in 2006, about the difficulties of giving away pigeons that have been trained to return to the same spot.
Unsettled, she collects Drew and the dog. Later, on an early morning walk with Jesus in their quiet suburb, she feels a tingle of fear as she realizes the same man is now following her in his red Chevy. In Dickinson’s poem, the speaker narrowly escapes the threat of drowning but as she heads back to town from the shore, the sea follows her but then bows and gives her “a Mighty look” before retreating.
Instead of settling into sitcom tropes of unhappy family dynamics, Adderson here pairs mysticism and mystery to crack open another perspective on how past experiences ring through the body in the present. And like the opening story,, the story shifts subtly into the surreal in a way that showcases Adderson’s skill with structure.
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