Going Away Shoes
Nov 25, 2010
Going Away Shoes
Author: Jill McCorkle
Publication Date: 2009, paperback release Sept. 2010
Publisher: Algonquin Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-1-61620-014-5
An Okra 2010 Ten Best pick, this is a wonderful slim volume of 11 stories involving woman finding their way in life. As the back cover states, these women are "on the edge of either a breakdown or a breakthrough".
The stories deal with everything from a mother who's taking care of her dead son's daughter, with an ex-daughter in law she doesn't like........... to my personal favorite, the woman who keeps comparing parts of her life to being in one of the paintings by Bob Ross - remember the guy on PBS, The Joy of Painting - who was obviously on a few too many downers? When she keeps thinking about how Bob would handle the situation as he painted a tree - that's good stuff.
Not a happy bunch of stories, but they make you think.
