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5 Out of 5 Stars: Moving and haunting
Amazon Review By Rhonda S. White on 11/22/2012
Durban has penned a well-written collection of moving short stories that are full of emotion--sadness, loss, heartache, hope, love and faith. "In Darkness" is a poignant and tender story of a little girl's confusion as she watches her parents' marriage fall apart. " `Right,' her mother said. `Right,' he [her father] said. And the way they said it, right was a big engine that pulled a long black train out of a tunnel. You saw the engine and you sensed by the way it labored that it was pulling a weight, but you couldn't see, you couldn't, and you trembled against that seeing." Powerful writing. "This Heat," the collection's opening story, is another favorite of mine. It tells the story of a mill-worker mother who raises a prodigal son with a bad heart the best way she knows how, and then must bury him too young, as " . . . the sun beat down on the all: on the living, and into the grave, on those who had lived and died." You'll think about these characters and the lives they lived long after you finish their stories.
Highly recommended.