The Quick: A Novella and Stories by Agnes Rossi Sale

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The Quick depicts a world where loss is a physical fact plain and real as a bag of groceries on the counter; a world without safe havens. In the title novella, Marie Russo sits down on the stairs outside her apartment with her bourbon, her bedspread, and the hard fact of her father s death for company. Her mind wanders back to the time she befriended a young widow and witnessed, for the first time, agonizing grief. In her other stories, Agnes Rossi s honesty grips the reader as well. A teacher leaves an abusive husband, takes a young lover, then must answer new questions. A girl kisses a man in a parking lot, feels the pull of desire, believes she s marching straight out of childhood. In Scrawl, a widower recognizes that his quick-fix marriage is a sham; but the child born from that marriage is a flesh-and-blood boy, his son. These women and men scramble through adversity with wisdom and wit, hearts open, eyes wide. Their voices, strong and clear, herald the arrival of a vital American writer.