The Let Go Author:Jerry Gabriel The people who inhabit Jerry Gabriel's second collection of stories, The Let Go, strain against their historical moments. A poacher's daughter, a disgraced vet, an out-of-work temp, a professor, a middle-school basketball ace: these are the Great Let Go in whose embattled existence we feel the impact of war, financial crises, and the many lesser... more » perils that attend life. With equal measures of tenderness, ruthlessness, and humor, Gabriel illuminates an Ohio landscape-its cities, suburbs, and countryside-fraught with economic disparity, its characters facing their dilemmas with grief, with anger, but always exhibiting a surprising fortitude. In these seven taut stories, Gabriel writes hardship as a site of hope.« less