In the opening story, ‘No More Than a Bubble’, two men walk a pair of women home from a house party. That shaking often has its roots in sex, an act that typically plays out very differently in the minds of Brinkley’s characters than in reality. In these nine memorable stories Brinkley shakes each of his main characters in turn, and we, as we read, are shaken too.
‘But’, he continued, ‘I am completely faithful to the idea that there are moments when we can be profoundly shaken’.
‘I’m deeply suspicious of the idea that people or characters can suddenly undergo deep and genuine change, or that radical change and true epiphanies are common,’ Jamel Brinkley told an interviewer last summer, when his debut short story collection, A LUCKY MAN, was published in the United States.
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