Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events

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A dazzling new story collection from a brilliant, young, award-winning writer
"The first thing you notice reading the stories in Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events is the author's extraordinary range-of expertise, technique, imagination and wit. There doesn't seem to be much Kevin Moffett can't do." -Richard Russo
Propelled by a multitude of idiosyncratic voices, the stories in Kevin Moffett's Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events are tragic in their conception and comic in their execution. Moffett casts light on characters in transitional states. "In the Pines," captures a Civil War reenactor visiting an elderly woman recently relocated to a retirement home. In "Border to Border," an immigrant working at an amusement park faces a daunting choice when he loses one of his dental crowns. "First Marriage" explores what unfolds when a honeymooning couple is stalled in Arizona by the stink of dead animal in their rental car.
Through the anxious voices and strange predicaments of his characters, Moffett deftly places his stories between a still-evolving past and an unpredictable future, offering a poignant, often comic, and sometimes disturbing portrait of human uncertainty-of men and women suspended at the point of discovery or passage.
Written with penetrating insight into our motivations and fears, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events is a wise, funny, and haunting collection that signals the emergence of a powerful talent.