The 19 short stories in this collection by award-winning author Barbara Lockhart are set in the small towns and fields that stretch across the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the land between the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean where evidence of long history and present-day struggles abounds.
In this slice of rural America, there can be seen and appreciated a sense of the raw humanity of neighbours and strangers alike, as their choices and actions reverberate over days, years, and generations.
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THE TOWN SLEEPS. BEGINNING WITH PUCKUM
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(@Secantpub, 4 July 2020, 246 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via @edelweiss_squad and voluntarily reviewed)
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I'm new to this author. I thought these stories were just okay, nothing particularly extraordinary or startling. I don't know if I'd read the author again as I didn't find these very impressive. The stories remind me a little of Alice Munro who I'm not a huge fan of. They are all quite similar in many ways especially the rural settings and the characters and I found them quite interchangeable. The stories were not to my taste.
