From the Midway: Unfolding Stories of Redemption and Belonging by Leaf Seligman (Bauhan, 2019).
This richly researched collection of linked short stories transports readers to the midway of a carnival traveling through the Jim Crow South where we meet the carnival owners, a carousel operator, the geek, dancing girls, several performers displayed as oddities and the African American laborers charged with tending them. The final story crosses the ocean, underscoring the the power and mystery of unexpected connections. Lyrical descriptions of the physical environs and the emotional landscape of each character function like a funhouse mirror, providing just enough distance and distortion to see ourselves more clearly. The sharply striated world of a century ago aptly reflects the tensions, divisions, and perennial shared yearning for redemption and belonging that mark us as human. -- Publisher's Blurb.
New Hampshire author Leaf Seligman will be presenting at
The Toadstool Bookshop in Keene on Saturday, November 9th, 2019 at 11 am.
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