Evanescence

Borenstein''s twelve stories are literary timepieces she fashionedduring fi fty years of writing fi ction. Favoring the decades asnesting dolls for her interplay of imagination with memoryshe evokes the ever-shifting spirit of the times through the lives ofher characters creatures of days swift-fl owing from time past throughthe evanescent present toward the somedays of an ever-recedinghorizon. Shadows of a growing distance from youthful dreams ofinvincibility lengthen across the American century as it growsolder. Her Afterword celebrates the short story as self-replenishingfor readers journeying on from a once-upon-a-time moment inAmerican history.