Thirteen stories—"true," as the cover promises—of moments when pain, loss, and sorrow mark the lives of ordinary people: a doctor, a nun, a model, a cleaning woman. They ring true because they show reality without sentimentality, often starkly. When religious feeling appears, when a presence beyond the visible world emerges, it comes after struggle and searching. It doesn't end in neat resolution, but rather opens onto a path where suffering and sadness will return—yet where, perhaps, despair and total emptiness will not.
Spare, unconventional faith—unconcerned with offering comfort—threads through these portraits of human beings. The author attends with particular care to what happens inside them.
Dori Zamboni's stories move easily across the page; they touch the heart, some provoke thought. For a slim book, that is enough.
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