All We Ever Needed (Paperback)

Paperback. In All We Ever Needed, James F. Mulhern turns a sharp, compassionate eye toward families, lovers, teachers, children, and aging women who carry the past like a second body.Set in Boston kitchens, Catholic households, Florida streets, classrooms, nursing homes, and seaside towns, these stories explore the strange ways people injure and rescue one another. A grandmother's cruelty masks loneliness. A teacher's performance of care hides something more dangerous. A lover's betrayal opens into grief, memory, and reluctant self-knowledge.By turns darkly funny, tender, unsettling, and deeply humane, All We Ever Needed is a literary short-story collection about family, damage, mercy, and the small, stubborn forms of grace that remain when everything else has fallen away. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.