This short novella is a reflection of life, relationships, guilt and repercussions. I’m sure that it is far more too, and I can guarantee that I was missing most of it.
The general premise is a simple one. Three people, seemingly
unconnected, go about their daily lives in three different cities. The reader
visits only one protagonist at a time, their stories never intertwining and
always coming to a close before the next character is seen. Do they have
anything in common? They are all loners, chewing on their past and on
relationships which didn’t end well. They’re all living away from their
homelands - out of place and running away from overbearing guilt and regret. Each
comes across an enigmatic stranger who appears out of place and harbouring some
hefty secrets.
The stories themselves are relatively uneventful. Their
beauty lies rather in the author’s poetic turn of phrase and the many layers of
meaning which the reader is able to decipher from it. I really felt that it was
over to me how much I chose to read into it, so it’s possible that different
readers will gain quite different messages from the same book, which is an
interesting idea in itself. The version which I read still has the odd typo,
but these were few and far between.
A little about Constance A Dunn:
Born on the US west coast, writing from Belgrade Serbia.
Constance's non-fiction is all over the web where she writes for magazines,
sites, and think tanks about travel, being foreign, and the soul of cities.
Her literary fiction dives deep into these same themes: the other, the stranger, and the foreigner.
Her debut novel ApartFrom was published in October 2013 with KUBOA press.
Her literary fiction dives deep into these same themes: the other, the stranger, and the foreigner.
Her debut novel ApartFrom was published in October 2013 with KUBOA press.
Where to find her on the web: http://www.constanceadunn.com/
Link to the book on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18694069-apartfrom?from_search=true
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