Fables from an Island

Abstract

There are twenty-four pieces here on 148 pages. There are no illustrations. At the end of the prologue we find a good description of what is coming: stories that come from secret sources, these tales of what might have occurred, once upon a time, on this mystical island that I love (2). I read the first story and found it truly touching. Two old islanders sit on the porch on Saturday morning and watch the world go by. It turns out that there Jack has had a stroke and cannot speak. Evelina apologizes to him for not enjoying his clowning more. I doubt that a reader will find any fables in the stricter sense in this book. I bought it on eBay with a companion piece, The Felix: An Island Tale.