ALL WORLDS ARE REAL

by Susan Palwick
Fairwood Press
(www.fairwoodpress.com)
2019, 319 pages, $17.99
ISBN 978-1-933846-84-2
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I wanted to make a mention of ALL WORLDS as I am still reading this as of upload time in True Review.
The entire collection is worth this story alone: the opening one, “Windows.” A mother makes a long and exhausting trip to prison to visit her incarcerated son, taking along a video zip file of the son’s sister, wishing him a happy birthday, taped on a ship she is aboard, millions of miles away: and all would have been well if not for the news of tragedy aboard the ship. It’s a gut-wrenching tale of separation, despair, hope and love.
