American Pearlman seems to have burst onto the British literary scene and taken all the cognoscenti totally by surprise. Her short stories, which span 40 years of writing, take us around the world from tsarist Russia, to London during the blitz, from Central America to Maine, from Jerusalem to Massachusetts. They are sad, funny, perceptive and always thought provoking, each one engaging the mind long afterwards. A collection to savour and eke out carefully, one by one.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 77 Summer 2015 ) |
