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Nine short stories from the acclaimed author of Man Without Memory exploring themes of love, family, and time. Five-time Pushcart Prizeâwinner Richard Burginâs stories have been praised by the New York Times Book Review as âeerily funny, dexterous, and too haunting to be easily forgotten,â with âcharacters of such variety that no generalizations about them can apply.â In Donât Think, his ninth collection of short fiction, Burgin offers us his most daring and imaginatively varied work to date. The stories explore universal themes of love, family, and time, examining relationships and memoryâboth often troubled, fragmented, and pieced back together only when shared between characters. In the title story, written in propulsive, musical prose, a divorced father struggles to cling to reality through his searing love for his highly imaginative son, who has been diagnosed with Aspergerâs syndrome. In âOf Course He Wanted to Be Remembered,â two young women meet to commemorate the death of a former college professor with whom they were both unusually closeâthough in very different ways. In âV.I.N.,â a charismatic drug dealer tries to gain control of a bizarre cult devoted to rethinking lifeâs meaning in relation to infinite time, while in âThe Intruder,â an elderly art dealer befriends a homeless young woman who has been sleeping in his basement. Together, the nine stories in Donât Think illuminate the astonishing fact of existence itself while justifying the Philadelphia Inquirerâs assessment that Burgin is one of Americaâs most distinctive storytellers. âThe authorâs straightforward and suspense-driven storytelling voice is as compelling as ever, the stories somewhat spooky and darkly comic.â âCleaver Magazine |
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