All in the Family: A Sibling Reading with Maureen Pilkington and Kevin Pilkington

Kevin Pilkington
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Maureen Pilkington will read short fiction from her collection, This Side of Water: Stories, and Kevin Pilkington will be reading from his latest collection of poetry, Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems.In This Side of Water: Stories, Maureen Pilkington’s bright debut collection, precise and vivid language delivers flawed characters to their moments of reckoning. A married woman goes to the cemetery to resurrect her father; a young girl at a beach club witnesses her parents’ infidelity; an icy New Year’s Eve leads a devoted husband to violent clarity; a teenager spies on her mother and a Catholic priest; a Russian “dancer” visits her American husband and plays a dangerous game. In these sixteen stories, the backdrop of water—the Long Island Sound, the sulfur polluted Monangahela River, a koi pond, a basin of holy water, a tear in a boy’s eye—provides a salve for these characters, ferrying them to personal ports of resolution.

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