He Made Me Think Of

It's Not The Cheating. It's The Hunger For An Alternative. The Refusal To Accept Unhappiness.

Meg Was Going To Have To Learn For Herself What Laurie Had Figured Out Over The Summer - That It Was Better To Leave Well Enough Alone, To Avoid Unnecessary Encounters With The People You'd Left Behind, To Not Keep Poking At That Sore Tooth With The Tip Of Your Tongue. Not Because You Didn't Love Them Anymore, But Because You Did, And Because That Love Was Useless Now, Just Another Dull Ache In Your Phantom Limb.

Maybe That's What We Look For In The People We Love, The Spark Of Unhappiness We Think We Know How To Extinguish.

I Used To Describe Myself As A Comic Novelist, But My Concerns Seem To Have Darkened Over The Past Few Years.

Safe From The Neighbors Is A Novel Of Unusual Richness And Depth, One That's As Wise About The Small Shocks Within A Marriage As It Is About The Troubled History Of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough Is A Formidably Talented Novelist, Shuttling Between The Past And Present With A Grace That Feels Effortless.