Of Elegant Time by Paula Friedman Hardback Book 9781737679608

Profoundly emotional conceptually acute yet grounded in the grit and bravery of daily life these 22 carefully crafted tales probe lifes crisis moments and its ordinary hours Among the stories an encounter on a mountain trail wakens a veterans numbed emotions two French Resistance fighters balance desperate action and shy new love a 1960s peace activist finds personal and political identity to protect her baby a single mother must fight her own terrors a dying woman seeks a final shred of meaning a quotdetainedquot immigrant child can no longer recall normal life in 2460 an elegant alien and a human woman too briefly find love Davey and Dani had until now outwitted each pandemic