A Place Between Stations: Stories

Rating:
Summary: Lyrical short stories
Review: A Place Between Stations is filled with beautiful short stories. Allen's prose is sparse, but she is able to create evocotive word pictures, and I am able to see every situation clearly in my head. She is able to tell a story with the right amount of detail- we don't get bogged down trivia.
The stories deal with African American women of varying ages and social situation. They center around a situation that will color the women's attitude forever. My favorite was about a young girl who discovered the body of a homeless woman along the side of an abandoned railroad yard. The girls confusion about the how's and why's of the world, were both beautiful and sad. But whether the stoy was about a 9 year old girl, or an older widow, all the heroine's were searching for some sort of lost innocence.

Rating:
Summary: Lyrical short stories
Review: A Place Between Stations is filled with beautiful short stories. Allen's prose is sparse, but she is able to create evocotive word pictures, and I am able to see every situation clearly in my head. She is able to tell a story with the right amount of detail- we don't get bogged down trivia.
The stories deal with African American women of varying ages and social situation. They center around a situation that will color the women's attitude forever. My favorite was about a young girl who discovered the body of a homeless woman along the side of an abandoned railroad yard. The girls confusion about the how's and why's of the world, were both beautiful and sad. But whether the stoy was about a 9 year old girl, or an older widow, all the heroine's were searching for some sort of lost innocence.