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Threatened Species
Threatened Species
Threatened Species
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Threatened Species

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Two weeks--that's all the time Ed Winters has with his son Danny before Ed's ex-wife and her new husband move with the boy to Paris. Those days, filled with fly fishing, camping, and an unplanned cross-country road trip, grow ever more desperate as Ed struggles to face the reality of losing the boy, and Danny of losing his home. Set amid the streams and backroads of Michigan and Montana, THREATENED SPECIES is a harsh but beautiful ode to fathers and sons.

The novella is collected here with five other Michigan short stories by Jeff Vande Zande.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherUntreed Reads
Release dateMar 24, 2011
ISBN9781611870909
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    Threatened Species is a short fiction collection, and while the fly fishing hovers in the background of several stories, these are not fly fishing-centric tales.

    Instead, most of Threatened Species' tightly-written stories deal with people struggling with loss or change, and while the writing is engaging, it's far removed from the happy trails normally trod by fly fishing writers.

    In truth, those expecting typical fly fishing fare may find themselves struggling to enjoy this story collection.

    Threatened Species -- the novella that anchors this collection -- follows a father who has two weeks with his son before his divorced wife moves to Paris (with the son and new husband).

    They take to the road on a fishing trip, which quickly derails as the father struggles with his son's departure. Thankfully, the author finishes on a hopeful note.

    The other works are shorter and -- in large part -- grimmer, and it's these stories that account for much of the collection's sharp edges (including a particularly unpleasant image involving a well).

    Vande Zande's prose is taut and spare, and the cumulative effect of his writing is that of a snare drum; staccato bursts of energy interwoven with characters struggling -- in many instances -- to maintain any semblance of equilibrium.

    It's wonderful - if sometimes dark - reading.

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