This short collection of interrelated stories by Eric Bergstrom takes the reader to a place with its own set culture. In lieu of writing my own summary, I like author’s description of his work: “Punctuated with flaming crashes and flying pumpkins, these ten fables drift through each other like smoke around a campfire, always getting [...]

Frank and Mavis Turner, and their teenage son, Gerry, are your typical Liverpool family. Liverpool is the only life they’ve ever really known, and it’s a satisfying, if uneventful, life. When Frank is offered- and accepts- a job in Durban, South Africa, he turns his family’s lives upside-down. Dragging along a sullen Gerry and a [...]










