An Evening Stroll: Short Stories

The ten short stories in this volume focus on the everyday. The immediate subject is the commonplace, which is described and recounted in realistic detail. And yet, as signaled by the word “evening” in the collection’s title, the usual can also be mistaken for something else in dimming light. Indeed, the starting point of these stories is that the human condition is one of knowing in part. The drama in the stories, such as it is, is in the play of perceptions and beliefs in routine interactions. The short stories show these motions resulting in the sometimes surprising choices, decisions and actions that ordinary men and women make and take as they negotiate their regular lives.