Category: Literary Fiction Publisher: Subito Press
ISBN-10: 0983115060
Type: Fiction
Pages: 124
Copyright: October 2013
ISBN-13: 9780983115069
Linked stories set in contemporary Lithuania, winner of the Subito Press Award for Innovative Fiction, sponsored by the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Look for Mayo's new book in October 2013--a cycle of stories set in contemporary Lithuania, a "ravishing book" (Anthony Doerr), a collection of "supple and marvelous tales" (Jaimy Gordon), fictions from "beneath the overcoat" (Michael Martone).
Excerpt
From "Brezhnev's Eyebrows":
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When Grigoryev arrived at the crumbling eighth-floor walkup on Zemaitijos Street, Asta was on the roof tugging laundry off the line. Out on the balcony he could see clothes snapping in the wind, their shadows undulating like those of migrating geese drifting over autumn hillsides, Asta’s shivering silhouette at their lead, torso and arms extended outward, strongest of her flock. Grigoryev loved thinking of his wife this way, imagining someday she would swoop down with great beating wings, snatch him off her laundry line, and press him tenderly to her face like a fresh shirt.
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
