This Side of Water: Stories

By Maureen Pilkington

In This Side of Water , Maureen Pilkington's bright debut collection, precise and vivid language delivers flawed characters to their moments of reckoning. A married woman goes to the cemetery to resurrect her father; a young girl at a beach club witnesses her parents' infidelity; an icy New Year's Eve leads a devoted husband to violent clarity; a teenager spies on her mother and a Catholic priest; a Russian "dancer" visits her American husband and plays a dangerous game. In these sixteen stories, the backdrop of water--the Long Island Sound, the sulfur polluted Monangahela River, a koi pond, a basin of holy water, a tear in a boy's eye--provides a salve for these characters, ferrying them to personal ports of renewal and resolution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947548743
• ISBN13: 9781947548749
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Regal House Publishing
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"