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In Praise of Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls
“In Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls, Susanna Solomon transforms little slices-of-life — a suspicious car, a woman yelling, teenagers misbehaving in a creek — into stories with meaning and emotion, filled with engaging characters both familiar and surprising. As an astute observer of life with a playful curiosity, Solomon grabs us unto her world and makes us want to explore, “What happened?” “Point Reyes, the ‘Martha’s Vineyard of the West Coast’ is beautifully captured by debut author Susanna Solomon in her delightful short story collection.” “The logged entries made to the sheriff and printed in the local weekly are real, but it takes the observant, creative and witty mind of Susanna Solomon to populate those dry reports with fictional residents of Point Reyes in the pages of these entertainingly original short stories.” “Susanna Solomon has taken a good idea and gone—literally—to town with it. Several towns, in fact, all small, all in West Marin, all peopled with characters like the wandering safecracker Bill, his pregnant daughter Hannah Bea, the elderly but still amorous Fred, his distracted wife Mildred, hapless young Thomas and his Harvard friend Justin, and the kindhearted Deputy, Linda Kettleman, who usually steps in at the last minute to set everyone straight. The musings and misadventures of these and other charming characters make for a playful and inventive collection of tales.”
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