Nowhere Near - Softcover

Jones, Teddy

4.69

13 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626770166 ISBN 13: 9781626770164

Publisher: MidTown Publishing, Incorporated, 2017

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Characters in the eleven stories in Nowhere Near act in ways that some might call “divinest madness.” Some of them have been pushed near their limits by years of stress. Others mourn and grieve and discover feelings they can’t admit aloud. A sense of duty drives another to believe in aliens, at least for a while. Some of their behavior is simply laughable, other flirts with death, and the rest ranges from dangerous to near heroic . These characters vary widely, yet all have in common that they live in or come from West Texas, where spaces are wider and tolerance for strangeness seems just a bit greater. Whether readers agree these characters are nowhere near crazy, they may admit they all are doing what humans do—what makes sense to them at the time.

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About the Author:

Teddy Jones has been a nurse, nurse practitioner, university professor, college dean, and occasional farmhand. She grew up in a small north Texas town, Iowa Park, and gained college degrees in nursing at Incarnate Word and University of Texas, a Ph.D. in Education at University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University. She held nursing, teaching, and administrative positions in Austin, Denver, and Lubbock and as a family nurse practitioner in Texas and New Mexico. Writing fiction was her “when I know enough and have the time” dream all those years. Now she and her husband live near Friona, in the Texas Panhandle, where her husband farms and she writes full time.

Review:

An affecting set of well-wrought literary tales. . . . the best ones provide more than a mere window into ordinary people's lives--they present a measured examination of the human condition. Other standout pieces include "Across the Vermilion Border," "The Woman with a Miniature Donkey," and the title story, which concludes in a moment of earned beauty that will stay with readers for some time. --Kirkus Reviews

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