A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies, (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

"A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies" is a psychological tragedy. You cannot help but feel sorry for the first person protagonist as he slowly loses his grip on his once secure life. As a plastic surgeon married to a neurosurgeon twenty years his junior he has turned to the bottle to reconc...

from ShortStoryLover

A fantastic book. Each story is so rich you feel like you read an entire novel afterwards.The stories have recurring themes but are not linked in any obvious way. All of the stories feature fathers or one kind or another, and most have a troubled father-son relationship at its core. Many also fea...

from CarolynSchroeder

This was a beautiful, thoughtful and interesting group of long(ish) short stories that often took my breath away. I am a bit new to the short story genre, but these struck me as unique, both in location and subject matter. Each of the eight stories deals with some similar themes, e.g., loss (usua...

from CarolynSchroeder

This was a beautiful, thoughtful and interesting group of long(ish) short stories that often took my breath away. I am a bit new to the short story genre, but these struck me as unique, both in location and subject matter. Each of the eight stories deals with some similar themes, e.g., loss (usua...

from batchoy

I find the intricacy of his prose, the exotic situations narrated in a flat, matter-of-fact tone--tantalizing. But I do agree with the reviewer (Megami?) who says that the situations seem to vary little from story to story-- there is always the brilliant, distant father; the neurasthenic, unhappy...