6/24/2023 0 Comments Ali smith public libraryThe opener, “Last,” observes a handicapped woman accidentally trapped on a train through the eyes of a narrator whose mind wanders to the etymologies of “buxom,” “stamina,” “clue,” and other words, to thoughts of her childhood and pressing many-leaved clovers in a book. The thematic resonance of the stories is subtler. She describes her latest book as one “that celebrates the communal impact on us of books and of reading.” That is clearly the case in the italicized sections between the stories, in which writers and others say what public libraries have meant to them. budget cuts threaten to close as many as 1,000 public libraries. Scottish writer Smith ( How to Be Both, 2014, etc.) notes that U.K. An engaging collection of stories that explore how people are connected by words, ideas, events, and memories and, not coincidentally, how those connections may be lost when public libraries are closed.
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