An evocative collection of short fiction offers a vivid portrait of people hovering on the brink of dislocation as they flounder for answers and sometimes achieve all-too-brief moments of grace. Reprint....
The stories in The Getting Place spring from the places Frank Soos loved best: the coal hills of southwest Virginia, the coves of coastal Maine, and the rivers and tundra around Fairbanks, Alaska. They ask, “Who can know the why of his own life, th...