Above the Houses

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453213230

<DIV><p><DIV>The stories in <i>Above the Houses </i>allow the reader to enjoy what the author has elsewhere called &ldquo;a kind of ecology of consciousness: how to use well and not squander our stupendous human resources for insight.&rdquo; The crises they describe&mdash;ranging from death, divorce, and murder to a torrential Midwestern rainstorm&mdash;provide a context for the author&rsquo;s astonishing ability to capture subtle human feelings, whether those of old people, children, lovers, or the lonely.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Set in the heartland of America, each story, in its own extraordinary way, poses the dilemma of the father in the volume&rsquo;s concluding story, &ldquo;Rain,&rdquo; when he asks &ldquo;to be told why I care so much how I live if it is all to end anyway.&rdquo; And each offers the answer he gets: &ldquo;because it does not end.&rdquo;</div></p></DIV>