Just before going to sleep one night, I read Dawn Garisch’s story Knock, Knock, which is about an encounter between a man and woman who are unknown to each other and meet randomly when the woman knocks on the man’s door asking for sugar.
The nearest restaurant is two hours away, and they have both driven somewhere isolated in a quest for peace and a way to escape their everyday lives.
The story lulled me to sleep with its sweet melody of this serendipitous encounter and its satisfying conclusion.
What Remains is novelist Dawn Garisch’s powerful and compelling debut collection of short fiction. Not all the stories lulled me to sleep, though. Some left me a little uneasy, in a good way, mulling over and digesting the events of the stories.
Here are stories about marriages barely holding together by the crumbling remains of a long-ago glue that’s losing strength. Here are women who have lost husbands or are coming to terms with the realisation that the unions they stayed in so long weren’t quite as glorious as hoped. A man steps outside his life to take an unhealthy interest in other people, another man contemplates a dalliance with another woman, and a married man falls in love with another man …
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