These characters may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, but their stories are not the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in The Usual Mistakes conduct readers into a world where betrayal is just a beginning. Deception, infidelity, even death where a person goes from there is the mainspring of Erin Flanagan s fiction, and in the turns her characters take, we find rare insights: that we are often wedded to one another because of, not in spite of,...
These characters may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, but their stories are not the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and...
It s not going to kill you, a mother tells her protesting child. And maybe it won t, but that doesn t mean anyone is getting off scot-free. A no-man's-land between exoneration and repercussion, this is the place where the people in Erin Flanagan s stories live: in events as big as 9/11 and as small as an infatuation with a dog groomer, as meaningful as the birth of a baby and as senseless as a car crash, as unique as a 1980s air band living out dreams for a city in decline and as common as an afterschool job that sucks. These stories accept that we all make mistakes, butit swhat we do in...
It s not going to kill you, a mother tells her protesting child. And maybe it won t, but that doesn t mean anyone is getting off scot-free. A no-m...
Although the characters in these stories may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, their stories are anything but the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in The Usual Mistakes conduct readers into a world where betrayal is just a beginning. Deception, infidelity, even death where a person goes from there is the mainspring of Erin Flanagan s fiction, and in the turns her characters take, we find rare insights: that we are often wedded to one...
Although the characters in these stories may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, their stories are anything but the usual fare. Popul...
