"Goognight, Nobody" by Michale Night.

Goodnight, Nobody

The word routine can be used quite a frequently to describe certain aspects of Michael Knights stories in GOODNIGHT, NOBODY --- familiar people leading ordinary lives, doing ordinary things. The stories in this govern of battle arnt wrought with thick drama that seeps through the pages and there are no wild routines of regularts here. These stories are quiet and unassuming yet, even so, shed a richness permeating through them that makes the built-in book somewhat powerful.

The collection is a tapestry, with antithetic topics and different kinds of people. In Birdland, a subtle ro homosexualce, an ornithologist tracks the migration habits of African parrots --- and is lured to the towns occupant carver. In Blackout there are two couples, a downed power line, a dead neighbor, some miscommunication and night lot goggles. In Killing St acewall Jackson, Confederate soldiers contemplate the man who sent them to the battle. From India to Alabama, Knight serves up characters that have bad draw from time to time but do their best to plod with the punches, to believe in love and family and to trust that everything will turn out okay (sometimes less than okay) in the end.

At the beginning of one of the better stories in the collection, Feeling Lucky, Knight writes Midnight, and Bruce Little was stooping against a pay phone under the awning of the exaltation John Divine Hotel, shivering with cold and dialing collect to Mississippi. Its an ordinary scene and an ordinary sentence, but he brings that scene into flying focus and our burgeoning thoughts of Bruce Little quickly into view. He spins stories out of much(prenominal) scenes and characters like Bruce Little, run-of-the-mill people who lead run-of-the-mill lives yet, nonetheless, have a story to tell.

These toned-down and mellow characters, however, may not magnetise readers who want something...

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