Review: Thoughtful and engaging stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 18, 2013
"No Man is an Island and other short stories" by Sonya C. Dodd is a thoughtful and reflective selection of short stories about human relationships of all kinds: An actress who needs to decide between her love and her career, the wife of a soldier waiting for him to return, the recently widowed man, the daughter who loses the mother she hated to name some that particularly moved me.Dodd takes her readers into many unique relationships and situations - even a bank robbery - with a skill for observation and with the emotional maturity of an experienced writer.There is honesty and wisdom, love and hope. The stories are written with such convincing and engaging tone that I often found myself trying to figure out which ones are about the author and which ones are fiction.Dodd shares and provokes thoughts, entertains and lulls you in to a great variety of worlds, all showing how true the title of the book is.