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Selling Their Childhood: A Collection of Short Stories
Selling Their Childhood A Collection of Short Stories Author:James Buchanan The stories collected in this book are compelling, real, sensual and experiential. They are narratives that draw the reader into the lives and experiences of people quietly, yet bravely facing the complexities of life as they seek the most simple of goals?happiness. There is the teenage boy sitting on the steps of a bus station in Omaha trying t... more »o see that there is a life for him beyond prostituting himself to the men who drive in from the suburbs. There is the woman losing herself in the deep blue of the landscape as she patiently and painfully waits as her husband and sister work to make a child as a last hope to build a family. And there is the new dad desperately trying to calm his child as he wrestles with the reality underlying his wife?s idealism. In all, they are stories of the texture of life.« less