The Broken Places: A Collection of Short Stories

By Rick Hoffman

The Broken Places is a collection of short fiction from author Rick Hoffman. Compiled over several years, these stories represent the best of Hoffman's short fiction to date. "Biyan " is the story of a Yazidi woman fleeing genocide in her home country. "Dual-Portraits" invites the reader into the troubled mind of a once promising young art historian, tortured by the malevolent influence of his idol. "Pareidolia" follows a character whose tendency to see meaning in the mundane leads him on a chase through a small town, across one of the longest bridges in the world, and into the heart of an infamous city. "The Walking Woman" examines a strange woman's solitary walk northward along the highways of the American South, inspiring strangers along the way. The stories contained within this volume take the reader from S o Paulo's open air markets to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to the New Orleans French Quarter. Their characters are men, women, and children whose broken places define them. Some breaks are big, while others are small, but they are all points of departure for the people who inhabit these pages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1081195169
• ISBN13: 9781081195168
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"