Abscond: A Short Story

What a gut wrenchingly beautiful look at how a person's entire world changes due to grief.

This is an intimate short story about life, about death, about mourning, about laughing. It feels true. We temporarily lose ourselves and hopefully we come back to ourselves, but we will never be the same.

I picked this one up because I just wanted something quick to read after having set aside another book that was boring the #%!! out of me. So maybe my rating is more a reflection of my mood at the time of reading this than the story itself. Honestly though, this story is a classic example of why I don't read a lot of short stories. They just seem like an early chapter of a whole other story. Enough said.

Short, thought-provoking work from an Indian-American writing who put a lot into a relatively few pages.

A very short, but meaningful story..