By The Ft. There is a lot more to Crabb's life story, and we get most of it in this new adventure. Unfortunately, the remainder comes to us in a different time, a different environment. In between, the slow unraveling of a man and his family is rendered in the most delicate of prose styles. Jackie Kay Fiction exists for many reasons, but it often seems to me that its primary responsibility is explaining the inexplicable.
Good fiction answers that, imagining the whys behind simple facts.
The nine stories in this collection are emotionally unsettling, full of sad truths about ill-fated relationships between men and their fathers, children, friends and wives.