cover image A Little More Than Kin: A Collection of Short Stories

A Little More Than Kin: A Collection of Short Stories

Rebecca Kavaler. Hamilton Stone Editions, $14.95 (181pp) ISBN 978-0-9654043-8-9

With a keen eye and sharp wit, acclaimed author Rebecca Kavaler lays family relationships bare in this collection of stories, A Little More than Kin. In ""Give My Brother My Best"" a grown woman reflects on her estranged sibling, the golden child who took all the wrong turns; a son confronts his father after his mother's death, stirring up old secrets, in ""The Inheritance."" Kavaler adds a sci-fi touch to ""Servants,"" in which a wife sees 500 years into the future, only to find that ""the servant problem"" has not been solved. The descriptions are vivid, the metaphors fresh, the language precise, the insights profound.