In 16 stories and essays, life unfolds in unpredictable ways, and the choices people make redefine their past and shape their future.
Carl Glickman, UGA professor emeritus of education, displays the full range of his creative work: parable, tragedy, humor, mystery, memoir and personal essay in his new book The Trembling Field: Stories of Wonder, Possibilities and Downright Craziness.
In this collection, clueless Northern college students desegregate schools in the rural South; a town attempts to come to terms with a revered community organizer’s pedophilic behavior; an old man copes with possible misunderstandings over what occurred with a promising female high school student; a child overcomes stuttering through the efforts of an unbending teacher; the mother superior of a Ukrainian convent is discovered to be the only child of a Holocaust survivor; and an African-American man returns to the Georgia farmhouse of his childhood to wrestle with the death of his sister.