Written by Brie
April 27th, 2010

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black

To any fan of the short story genre, this is a collection well worth exploring. Black was able to twist and turn variations of love into a classical masterpiece, in this reader’s opinion. She is able to touch on familiar love which becomes eye-opening in what a sighted father has been blind to in his daughter’s growth as a sightless young adult.

Black is able to touch on loss and how to deal with the grief of not having enough time with a loved one.

She is able to explore the idea of a dying woman who can bare more to her neighbor whom she knows only of in terms of a territorial conflict than she can her husband or her son.

She does all with grace and attention to detail which I found mesmerizing.

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