By Mitchell Waldman
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Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers includes stories about family dysfunction in a not-so-blended family, work, Adolf Hitler’s imagined alternative lives and possible reincarnation, the spirit of Kurt Cobain, a green angel giving an aging alcoholic man a second chance at redemption, men struggling to find some meaning in their lives, and more. Many of these stories deal with feelings of alienation and abandonment, of feelings of the characters that they do not fit in in their families, their lives, their jobs, and sometimes in their very bodies. Are they, are we all, in some sense, living in the company of strangers?
In all there are 38 stories and flash fiction pieces in this collection, most of which have been published in notable literary journals.