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I was a lucky enough to get an advance copy of this, and am now on my 3rd re-read of it. Jeffers' work never fails to tear my heart open, then stitch it loosely back, more tender than before. The stories in this collection filled me with longing for more though they are all impeccably constructed. Each story is a micro world, a tiny universe in which the reader lives an entire life, emerging on the other side bewildered and bereft to discover they are once again just themselves and not an inhabi...
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Not Here. Not Now contains both short stories and novellas. The settings are far-ranging in both geographical location and time period, from historical to contemporary, and from the Greek isles, to the streets of New York, from a desert island, to the canals and opera houses of Venice. Jeffers adapts the voice of each piece to suit the setting, and does an impressive job of it. In the introduction to “A Handbook for the Castaway”, the author admits to inventing a “faux-seventeenth-century dialec...
