Pink Harvest: Tales of Happenstance

By Toni Mirosevich

Toni Mirosevich explores life's shifting, tilting moments and encounters. A chance meeting with a homeless stranger, the feel of a nickel in the palm of her hand, a conversation about politics while... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 092281175X
• ISBN13: 9780922811755
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Mid List Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Terrific Collection of Personal Narratives

I love the way Toni Mirosevich's mind works-- her leaps and associations, her amazing metaphors, her wit and her honesty. Some essays are narratives with unforgettable characters, such as the homeless man with a hole in his chest. Other pieces meander, dip and dive into material rich in images, ideas, feelings. I particularly enjoyed Mirosevich's essay about an unusual acquisition of a Victorian dining table which explores everything from aging and loneliness to gentrification and greed. And her essays about her visit to Croatia, where her grandmother was born, are very powerful. Toni Mirosevich is wise and compassionate and very very funny. Read this book; it's a treasure.

Wonderful!

Toni Mirosevich writes, "All we have is what we can conjure." And in the hands of this writer, she conjures far beyond expectation. In each essay, she lets herself linger, ponder, to ask questions and suddenly you are far from where you thought she was going to take you. But you are exactly where you want to be-- surprised, delighted by a narrative that is quick with humor and wit and heart.

Of time and the timeless

What I like about this book is how the author lays out the details of both remembered events and current situations in which she finds herself and then allows perspective to transform them. The short narratives act like prisms reflecting rays of thinking into unexpected places. Like all good writers she makes this seem easy. She will take you from a place next to her at the childhood table sharing fish stew and the vicissitudes of family life to a more perspicacious realm where the grown-up voice has a tale to tell. Good book to pick up and start anywhere!

Understanding the human condition

Pink Harvest is a wonderful collection of short stories by Toni Mirosevich, San Franciscan poet and writer. In narratives that describe her search for cultural roots, growing up in the Croatian community in the Pacific Northwest, exploration of family relationships, spirituality and superstition, the growing pains of adolescence, and the stresses of everyday adult life, Mirosevich provides readers with a view of the human condition that is poignant and all too recognizable.