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Who is this woman?
 SOME
SAY SHE
is the woman who haunts your dreams, whom
you've searched for but never
found. Others see her as themselves,
abandoned by their one true
love, to dream alone of the happiness
that could have been
theirs.
This photo, by artist Peter Jacobs,
graces the cover of Where Things Are
When You Lose Them, the latest book
by Martin Golan. The photo epitomizes
the sentiment within: she is,
simply, everything we've
lost, our innocence, and the
elusive beauty we
somehow let slip
through our fingers. We will never know
her, surely never have her; she is
forever just out of reach.
Look in
her eyes and you will see it: She is loss itself.
in the
twelve stories that make up Where Things Are When You Lose
Them, Martin Golan delves into the nature of loss, from
the mundane, like misplacing your keys, to the heartbreaking,
like losing your youthful dreams, how you imagined your life
would be.
'You
will never be the person you were before'
The
stories are a follow-up to his debut novel, My
Wife's Last Lover, the
moving and often funny tale of the psychosexual tension
between men and women, the power struggle and longing for
safety that converge in a modern-day marriage. It's the story
of Daniel Weil, a seemingly happy, successful man who loves
his wife so deeply it verges on sexual obsession. Yet he walks
out on her and their two small children, in part because her
beauty and success bring up his own feelings of weakness and
inadequacy.
With a reporter's eye for detail and a poet's ear for
language, Golan takes us through a landscape of loss familiar
to anyone who has experienced a moment when something
changes inside you that you can't quite name, except to know
you will never be the person you were before. As we tour this
landscape of loss we find, in the end, a bit of redemption and
a chance at peace. Loss, we discover,
comes with being human,
with any life lived and well.
Read a story from Where Things Are When You Lose Them
Peruse a selection of writing by Martin Golan
See Reviews of Martin Golan's writing
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