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This is an excellent book of inter-connected short stories. We run into these characters at different times in their lives. As confused children, unhappy teens, and adults who can't quite figure out how to move on, how to make things happen. The vision is in their heads with no way to implement it. Delia and Dooley are siblings, Pudge is a friend, and their stories are first and foremost. This is not a New Orleans of fun, food and music (although there is a party chapter containing all three), b
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I skipped into this collection of interconnected stories. After the first story I was besotted. Then my heart got shattered. It did get partially bandaided back together but - Wow. Johnson knows how to write and how to make you feel her characters' pain.
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"More of This World or Maybe Another" is Barb Johnson's superb debut collection of interconnected short stories. The stories are set in Louisiana where siblings Delia and Dooley are raised in a small town where the tanks of a natural gas refinery overlook the area. The characters move on to New Orleans around Palmyra Street (where the author herself had a carpentry shop where she specialized in cabinetmaking for Victorian houses). Delia buys a laundromat which serves as a hub for the social inte
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Barb Johnson has written some fine stories of life in New Orleans in More of This World or Maybe Another. But she doesn’t write of the city that tourists visit or that typically appears in films or tv. This is the grittier, edgier city where people, and her characters, often live on the edge or are trying desperately to save ones they care about. The stories here are all interconnected, with four primary characters. Three are shown in their teens and as adults.
To be continued….
To be continued….
Interconnected short stories about living in the New Orleans area and trying to find your way through love, making ends meet, and the challenges of life. I enjoyed it.
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