Luck: Stories

A young bartender in Bostons North End finds himself complicit in the breakdown of his roommates relationship with a girlfriend; a married middle-aged professor of composition abjectly crumbles under the stress of his affair with a beautiful student. In his debut fiction collection poet Ed Meek vividly reimagines a gritty freewheeling 1970s New England whose cynical impulsive inhabitants--torn between the longing for human connection and the fear of domesticity--negotiate the blurry boundaries of personal responsibility. With these deceptively mundane accounts of ordinary lives in transition Meek paints a humane subtle portrait of ordinary people grasping at explanations for the things they do.