Your Father Sends His Love

Stuart Evers

2016 Nominee

Edge Hill Short Story Prize

02 June 2016
9781447280583
256 pages

Synopsis

The twelve unforgettable stories in Your Father Sends His Love explore the complex, baffling, and vital relationship between parents and their children. Set in the past, present and future, they are unified by their compassion, animated by the unsaid, and distinguished by how beautifully they extract the luminous from the ordinary.

With wit, subtllety, and uncommon sensitivity, Evers captures the powerful emotions of family life: joy, fear, vulnerability, duty, betrayal, loss, anger, and unconditional love. While his characters often feel more than they can express, they are in the hands of a masterful story teller who gives time to what might otherwise seem incidental. Your Father Sends His Love is a powerful, haunting, and deeply felt work about the most important relationships we will ever know.

Evers's writing is sequined with sparkling descriptions
Proof that the story form remains in rude health. Quietly brilliant and moving
Evers's everymen break my heart