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Secrets and Other Hobbies

by Mary Hannah Terzino Publisher: MOCHA MEDIA INC

Secrets and Other Hobbies

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Secrets and Other Hobbies

Mary Hannah Terzino’s short-story collection brings together episodes of concealed desire, grief, family ties, and community ritual in a Midwestern setting. Its characters include a child who witnesses a secret at a bridge club, a girl caught up in a friend’s wishes, and an older woman who makes a practice of attending local funerals. Across these varied situations, deception and longing complicate people’s choices, while the collection also leaves room for habit and understanding to shift. The stories are described as serious with dark humor, and their characters’ outcomes are not always assured.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in short fiction centered on family relationships and private lives.
  • Readers who enjoy stories about secrets, moral ambiguity, and grief.
  • Readers seeking fiction set in a realistic Midwestern community.

Themes

Secrets and deceptionHidden yearningsGrief and lossFamily and friendshipCommunity ritual

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Book overview

A child spies two women kissing at her mother's bridge club. A young girl unwittingly contributes to terrible loss as she tries to honor her friend's deepest wishes. A late-night drowning at a high school graduation party is mired in secrets. An older woman compulsively attends the town's funerals, believing her presence there to be God's calling. A retired woman finally harvests insights and breaks old habits through revelations from her daughter's experiences. The stories in Secrets and Other Hobbies are layered with purposeful deception and poignant, hidden yearnings that cause their characters to stumble before they rise, if they rise at all. Serious and darkly humorous, noble and morally ambiguous, achingly vulnerable and always memorable, Mary Hannah Terzino's debut lays bare an indelible and realistic Midwest.

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