Two Views of Grief

The Fires: Two Novellas

By Alan Cheuse

(Santa Fe Writers Project,  $10.00, paperback)

Alan Cheuse is perhaps best known as a book reviewer for National Public Radio. But he also writes superb fiction.  His book The Fires, published in 2007, contains two engrossing and deeply human novellas.  “The Fires” and “The Exorcism” each deal with the sadness, the swirl of memories and the confusing feelings left behind after someone  you love suddenly dies. The stories also explore the difficult journey back toward happiness. 

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