Joan Silber
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Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Joan Silber
Supple and precise, these stories cover lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Set in France, Italy, New York, and China, in the past and present, they are about longings—about how sex and religion become parallel forms of dedication and comfort.
Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In “My Shape,” a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes…
