WHERE THINGS ARE
WHEN YOU LOSE THEM
In these twelve stories,
Martin Golan delves into the nature of loss, from the
mundane, like misplacing your keys, to the
heartbreaking, like giving up your childhood dreams, or
the death of a loved one.
With a reporter's eye for detail and a poet's ear
for language, Golan takes us through a
landscape familiar to anyone who
has experienced a moment when something changes
inside you that you can't quite name, except to know you
aren't 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 fully and
well.
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Cover photo by
Peter Jacobs
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A
Glimpse Inside:
When
Annie fell off the mountain she didn't make a
sound. We were hiking, and had stopped at a
waterfall. Annie, in typical fashion, decided to
scale the nearly horizontal rocks to enjoy the
view. After clambering all the way up she waved
.... I remember how small she looked up
against the boulders, this woman who loomed so
large in my life at that time.
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When
Annie Fell Off The Mountain
The
two men had known each other for more than
twenty years but had never shared a meal
together without their wives. Roger chose the
place, and it turned out to be a dark and musty
bar, the kind that smells damply of sex and
regret ...
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The Loneliness of Men
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