Books
Book Review: Jan Carson’s latest short story collection is a sparkling joy
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses reconfirms Carson’s status as one of the best writers on this island
You don’t have to go far into Grand So, one of the stories in Jan Carson’s new book, to realise that the man sat in the back of grandma’s 1982 Sierra isn’t really there at all. This “largish fella of farmer build” in the funeral suit is visible to Ruth and no one else.
“The last owner must’ve been a smoker … You canne shift the smell of fags,” grandma reckons as the man in ...
