Sudden Traveler - Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall

Category: General Fiction

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Tags: General Fiction, Short Story, Adults

Sudden Traveller is Sarah Halls third story collection. Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and existential quest, these new stories travel far afield in location and ambition., From Turkish forest and coastline to the gorges of the Pacific Northwest and the rain-drenched villages of Cumbria, Halls characters walk, drive, dream, and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journeys through life, death, and love. Science fiction meets folktale and philosophy meets mortality., A woman with a new generation of pacemaker chooses to shut it down in the Lakeland, the site of her strongest memories; a man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack historys dark suitcase; from the new world-waves of female anger and resistance, a mythical creature evolves; and in the woods on the border between warring countries, an old well facilitates a dictators downfall, before he gains power., In what has become her most powerful form of narr