Monday, March 18, 2024

American Spirits - Russell Banks


Three interesting short stories that depict life in a small town in upstate New York. Banks describes quiet desperation with elegance. Bank's wife said he would go to to the local bar in the town where they have a home and these stories came from people he talked to there. The characters made me sad in their reality (poor, misinformed, Trumpian), and the stories made me hurt for the state of the world today.

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