Synopsis "What Could we Have Possibly Known About Love Then? (in English)"
Navigating the precarious waters between heartbreak and loss, and written as the B-side to The History of the World, the short story collection What Could We Have Possibly Known About Love Then? picks up, in many respects, where THOTW leaves off—without any of the unnecessary delusions, but with a hopeful and resolute heart which pushes determinedly forward from the opening story “From Where We Live to Where We’re Going” (which finds a thirty-year-old woman stranded on the highway in the driving wind and rain when her car’s alternator fails: “Calling and calling practically everyone I knew. Where the hell was everyone?”) toward its inevitable conclusion, “Epilogue: Equidistant to Center.”Showcasing the lives of hardscrabble Americans, extraordinary human beings caught suddenly in the middle of a life, these eleven wildly spiritual, heartbreaking, and at times raucously fun short stories (about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands, wives, neighbors, nurses, cops, robbers, mechanics, ex-lovers, and best friends, etc.) remind us time and time again of our very best selves and everything we have in our capacity to offer.
