First Marriage : a Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events

In this story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a honeymooning couple in Arizona faces the vast future ahead of them—and the immediate problem of a dead animal stinking up their rental car. This meditation on marriage, commitment, and all that we give to and keep from those we love comes with equal parts heartbreak and bone-dry humor. A dazzling new story collection from brilliant, young, award-winning writer Kevin Moffett, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events illuminates the intimate experiences of characters caught between aspiration and achievement, uncertainty and illumination, inertia and discovery, the past and the future. Channeling unexpected, eclectic voices in a collection perfectly suited to readers of Daniyal Mueenuddin, Alice Sebold, and Dave Eggers, Moffett delivers a nuanced, powerful, humorous, and moving meditation on the trials of transitions and liminal living in todays modern world. Richard Russo says, the first thing you notice reading the stories in Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events is the authors extraordinary rangeof expertise, technique, imagination and wit. There doesnt seem to be much Kevin Moffett cant do. A Collection Of Short Stories Addresses The Trials And Tribulations Of Transitional Living In Modern Society, Exploring The Spaces Between The Past And The Future, Uncertainty And Understanding, And Inertia And Action. Further Interpretations Of Real-life Events -- Buzzers -- In The Pines -- First Marriage -- Border To Border -- Lugo In Normal Time -- English Made Easy -- The Big Finish -- Dog Year. Kevin Moffett. In the title story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, a young, struggling writer discovers that his father has begun to publish short stories—good ones, too—under the son's own name. The result is a brilliant and occasionally hilarious look at the meeting point of creative anxiety and the combustible father-son relationship.