"Broken Fiction is a collection of short auto/fictional pieces that move between memory and loss. The author finds both solace and anguish at the collision point of memory, or storying, and loss, or grief, and tries to negotiate a recognition without resorting to easy resolution. In each moment, there is an acceptance of life gone “off the rails” in some worlds, but a life that is “normal” in others. Often heartbreaking, sometimes funny and always in an in-between orbit of love or love gone wrong, anger or anger misplaced, joy or joy’s many faces, the fiction is cracked or broken by photographic “evidence” of the forceful memory and the sense of loss. At the same time, the narrator plays with the fact of life’s natural journey into its denouement and death. In doing so, she asks us: Can this reality find its difficult resolution in a more neutral interpretation—without giving into sorrow or self-pity?"-- Provided by publisher
