Synopses & Reviews
At first everything appears safe, although the posada where they're staying is almost empty. They hear sounds at night that Sam believes to be gunfire, but are told the noises are only fireworks in a neighboring village. An American woman staying at the posada goes out for a walk and doesn't return. Soldiers station themselves in the town plaza. Jenna does not consider herself a risk taker, yet she now finds herself in a situation where everything she's believed stable is threatened, and she must act in ways she's never anticipated. In spare and luminous prose, this novella examines the lives of two people who set out to explore a foreign land and discover what they must actually explore are their own assumptions about themselves.
About the Author
ROBIN BEEMAN grew up in Louisiana. She studied and taught in Mexico and now lives in the hills of Sonoma County, California. An Iowa Writer's Workshop graduate, she has had stories in such places as The Gettysburg Review, Puerto del Sol, The North American Review, and Crazyhorse. She was a 1990 PEN Syndicated Fiction winner. She has two books, a collection of novella and short stories, A Parallel Life and Other Stories, and a novella, A Minus Tide, both published by Chronicle Books. Last year A Minus Tide was selected for inclusion in The Readers' Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites.