Small Talk

<p>This is a book of elegies meditations and dreams. It's a book about connections and disruptions. It's a book about time how quickly it slips through our fingers and how it never ends. In Jeffrey Schwartz's <em>Small Talk</em> memories resurface cinematically: A driver flies through his sunroof to the past the deceased reappear at a Florida bar or in a sister's spare room two couples discover love in the same state 35 years apart. While the world<em> </em>in<em> Small Talk</em> is threatened with aging mortal accidents and violence the transcendent moment is never far away. It might arise from a song a long distance call a shared pause in a busy ICU or spotting angels on a department store escalator. In <em>Small Talk</em> Schwartz confronts what is inexpressible and explores ways we create to connect particularly during personal and historic tragedies.</p><p></p><p></p>