Bøger af Douglas Trevor

In these nine stories, Douglas Trevor explores unsettling and comic situations in which people lose their bearings, reinvent themselves, or resolve-sometimes haplessly-to make sense of their lives. The Book of Wonders reminds us not only of the struggle to connect, but also of what the most unlikely of people may realize they share.

In the Winter of 2001, 29-year-0ld Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston Café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships: one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate who is interviewing women about their lives for a book called Girls I Know, and the other with 11-year-old Mercedes Bittles, whose parents were killed in the restaurant. Wounded but resilient, all three must deal with loss and grief and the consequences that come when their lives change in unexpected ways.

The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space gathers stories about coping with grief, trying to love people who have died, and - more broadly - leaving old versions of the self behind, sometimes by choice and sometimes out of necessity.