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Paris Beckons: A Short Story Collection
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781943588992
Publisher: Lucky Bat Books
Published: Nov 14 2022
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When Susanna Solomon turned fourteen, her father told her that he was going to Paris to be alone. She believed him. Instead, he went to be with his mistress, an event that changed the trajectory of her family's life forever. When he returned, her mother confronted him, and he lied to her. Fed up and in despair, she took her own life.
Fifty years later and long after he was gone, Solomon felt an urge to see where her father had gone.
The result is Paris Beckons, her collection of vignettes told in the voice of our narrator, Nina, who sets out to follow in her father's footsteps in Paris. When she returned to places where she had been with her parents, Nina finds her mother standing beside her while holding her hand on the quai, and her father criticizing her everywhere they went. Confronting them gave her a chance to heal, and she returned home transformed.
Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, these short stories reveal what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories and will appeal, especially, to adult children with pasts that refuse to remain buried.
Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, Susanna Solomon's Paris Beckons showcases 34 stories revealing what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories. Poignant and for those with pasts that refuse to remain buried.
-Cara Black, author of the award-winning Aimée LeDuc Mystery Series Often heart-rending, sometimes surreal, but always intriguing, Solomon's Paris Beckons transports the reader to amazing places in and around Paris and in and around the human heart.
-JT Morrow, artist, author Susanna Solomon's fantastical musings reveal a clandestine Paris of temptation, imagination, and unease-ghostly Shakespeare & Company, time-bending The Clock, Twilight-Zone-esque The Teddy Bear, and Oscar-Wilde-reminiscent Hello, Human. Other tales derail the mind's comfort zones-risky soul-searching in Among My Own Kind, braving Parisian streets as a first-time motorcyclist in Julia, and communing with a Musée D'Orsay sculpture that thinks outside the box in The Dancer. Deft, whimsical, with the hovering shadow of a domineering father, these stories rank among Solomon's best.
-J. Macon King, Mill Valley Literary Review, author of Circus of the Sun and Drinking with a Dead Cat.
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