The Weight of a Body
About
Take a Wild Ride Through America of the Last 75 Years
The Weight of a Body by Michael Shay is an eclectic collection of short stories:
· The Garden of Worldly Delights: The eldest son of a large family in 1960s Florida uncovers a family secret.
· The Problem with Mrs. P: Big Ed comes to the rescue of a pregnant neighbor on the Wyoming’s windswept winter prairie.
· The Good Doctors: Three Nisei physicians in Colorado who left wartime internment camps to serve in the army struggle to reclaim their citizenship.
· Safe At Any Speed: A lonely widower finds that his neighbors in a Florida retirement village like to ride on the wild side.
· The Weight of a Body: A husband in Wyoming struggles with his military wife’s deployment to Iraq.
Praise for this book
“Michael Shay understands human strength in all its frailty; he creates characters from disparate eras, and always the characters touch us and seem profoundly tangibly real. Quietly, clearly, wisely, and with an overriding humor, Shay shows the lift of common survival into something more. His stories can help us believe in each other.”