"Inbound" is the story of a family of four taking a trip to the Boston area. Sophie is seven, her sister, Lily, two. Lily has Downs Syndrome and this is most of all a trip where Sophie figures out just what that means for her sister, her parents and her. Although it is also a story about her getting lost and what agony this puts her family through in a strange city. The writing is lovely and I look forward to reading the rest of the stories in this collection.
Perhaps I have too much of a negative memory of my New England youth, but I can feel the fraughtness of it all. I'm not sure I've read Pearlman yet.
ReplyDeleteMy first time. Jeff has been championing her.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read Pearlman either, but I'll look for this as it sounds great. My memories of youth are from Montreal, but unlike Todd I have great memories of Boston & plan to return with my own kids, though hopefully without losing either of them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Patti for posting my article on the Lovecraft story, though I planned a different for this week in Asimov's the first of The Hugo Winners: https://casualdebris.blogspot.com/2023/03/isaac-asimov-editor-hugo-winners-1962.html.
I've read some Edith Pearlman stories and found them compelling.
ReplyDeleteI finally finished the book, reading one or two stories (with another book) per day. A lot of her stories are set in the Boston area.
ReplyDeleteNow that I finally finished it, I am reading BLACK IS THE NIGHT, an anthology edited by Maxim Jakubowski, featuring new stories "inspired" by the writings of Cornell Woolrich. I liked the Joe Lansdale but thought Martin Edwards's story went on too long for the somewhat obvious payoff.
I am also finally starting the newest Crippen & Landru book that arrived before we left, THE KINDLING SPARK: Early Tales of Mystery, Horror, and Adventure by John Dickson Carr. These are early stories written when he was a teenager, apparently.
I recently purchased two books of her short stories in ebook editions. HONEYDEW and HOW TO FALL. I haven't read any of the stories yet though.
ReplyDeleteWould like to read the Woolrich odes.
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