Fidelity Stories Author:Michael Redhill Michael Redhill conjures up many unexpected twists in 10 richly textured stories that range from the darkness of family silences to the hilarity of people caught in their own snares. The vulnerabilities of Redhill's characters are our own: a business-trip affair leaves a man humbled in ways he cannot anticipate; a young lover discovers she does ... more »not understand what connects people to each other; a traveling salesman, in trying to remain friends with his ex-wife, keeps breaking her heart; and a teenager's shocking sexuality inflicts wounds on her family. FIDELITY probes the nature of temptation and desire, the ambivalence at the heart of our most intimate trusts, and the paradox of betrayal, which is that we cannot deceive others unless we have first deceived ourselves. With his unflinching attention to emotional detail, Redhill proves once again to be "a writer of considerable humanity and insight." (A. L. Kennedy)« less
Maybe it's just a matter of personal taste, but these stories seemed stilted in how sparse they were. They read more like half-stories, like the might be leading up to an actual plot. I don't get much emotion from the characters or the narration.