The Through Line

Encounters and non-encounters, attraction and rejection, paired moments from everyday life… The stories collected in the novella “The Through Line” are connected by the theme of lies—more precisely, invention. The heroines, whether it’s a teenage girl, a mother of a family, or an old literature teacher, a professor, write (or rewrite) their own lives—thereby escaping the ordinary and the predetermined—just because, well, it’s more interesting, more significant…