Janice Deal is the author of a novel, THE SOUND OF RABBITS (Regal House Publishing, 2023), and two short story collections: THE DECLINE OF PIGEONS (Queen's Ferry Press, 2013), and a linked collection, STRANGE ATTRACTORS (New Door Books, 2023). She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award for prose, and is currently working on a new collection of short stories.
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How much responsibility and guilt can a mother bear for a child who has done wrong?
This is the question that haunts Flo when her daughter Teddy plans to visit after a long separation. The prospect of seeing Teddy brings back painful memories of Teddy's troubled past—a young teen imprisoned for committing murder. Can Flo find the strength to support or even cope with her daughter as she is now? Can she resurrect hope for either of them?
Flo must thrash through these questions alone; her dear friend and confidant has just died. Then, as she's grappling with grief and guilt, her dog goes missing, and she takes a long walk to find him. On the surface, this is all that happens: A simple walk through a desert town. Encounters with people who uplift or unsettle her along the way. But for Flo, this journey becomes much more—a personal odyssey, as profound and disorienting as Ulysses'. She remembers an old folktale passed down by her family, about a young woman's mythical journey to find her place in the world. Echoes of this tale play through the current story, and the hunt for Dog turns into a metaphysical search for meaning.
Some readers will recall Flo and Teddy from Strange Attractors, the outstanding collection that critics compared to Chekhov and Flannery O'Connor. As her sequel to the mother-daughter story unfolds, Janice Deal once more reveals the extraordinary depths of unpretentious people. The Blue Door is a radical adventure, both compulsively readable and meditative—a rare combination.
Título : The Blue Door: A Novel
EAN : 9781735558585
Editorial : New Door Books
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